interject

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
18
Words With Friends
22
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ɪn.təˈdʒɛkt/(UK)
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/ɪn.təˈdʒɛkt/(UK) · /ɪn.tɚˈd͡ʒɛkt/(US)

Definition of interject

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To insert something between other things.
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verb

  1. (transitive)To insert something between other things.
  2. (transitive)To say as an interruption or aside.
    “He roared with prodigious violence against George the Second. When he ceased, Moody interjected, in an Irish tone, and with a comick look, “Ah! poor George the Second.””
    “‘Please, sir, Richard says one of the horses has got a very bad cold, and he thinks, sir, if you could make it convenient to go the day after to-morrow, instead of to-morrow, he could physic it to-day, so as—’ ‘Confound his impudence!’ interjected the master.”
    “As I listened I interjected an occasional sentence of Japanese translation for our guests.”
    “Virenque, in a panicky mishearing, replied, “Me a dealer? No, I am not a dealer.” […] Whereupon Virenque’s lawyer interjected, “No, Richard, the judge said leader. It’s not an offense to be a leader.””
  3. (intransitive)To interpose oneself; to intervene.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Latin interiectus, perfect passive participle of intericiō (“place between”).

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