Dictionary Entry
intercept
intercept is a 9-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To take or seize by the way, or before arrival at the destined place; to cause to stop on the passage; as, to intercept a letter; a telegram will intercept him at Paris. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To take or seize by the way, or before arrival at the destined place; to cause to stop on the passage; as, to intercept a letter; a telegram will intercept him at Paris.
- 2transitive verb
To obstruct or interrupt the progress of; to stop; to hinder or oppose; as, to intercept the current of a river.
- 3transitive verb
To interrupt communication with, or progress toward; to cut off, as the destination; to blockade.
- 4transitive verb
To include between; as, that part of the line which is intercepted between the points A and B.
- 5noun
A part cut off or intercepted, as a portion of a line included between two points, or cut off two straight lines or curves.
- 6noun
the point at which a line intersects a coordinate axis
- 7verb
seize on its way
"The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace"
Synonyms
- 8verb
tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information
"The FBI was tapping the phone line of the suspected spy"
"Is this hotel room bugged?"
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