interject
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin interiectus, perfect passive participle of intericiō (“place between”).
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interject (third-person singular simple present interjects, present participle interjecting, simple past and past participle interjected)
- (transitive) To insert something between other things.
- (transitive) To say as an interruption or aside.
- 1791, James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, London: Charles Dilly, Volume I, pp. 474-475,[1]
- 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.”
- 1848, Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Chapter 24,[2]
- ‘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.
- 1934, Olaf Stapledon, “East is West” in Sam Moskowitz (ed.), Far Future Calling: Uncollected Science Fiction and Fantasies of Olaf Stapledon, 1979,[3]
- As I listened I interjected an occasional sentence of Japanese translation for our guests.
- 2000, Julian Barnes, “The Hardest Test: Drugs and the Tour de France” in The New Yorker, 21 August, 2000,[4]
- 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.”
- 1791, James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, London: Charles Dilly, Volume I, pp. 474-475,[1]
- (intransitive) To interpose oneself; to intervene.
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to insert something between other things
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to interpose onseself
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