interject
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin interiectus, perfect passive participle of intericiō (“place between”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɪn.təˈdʒɛkt/
- (US) IPA(key): /ɪn.tɚˈd͡ʒɛkt/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛkt
Verb[edit]
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, “(please specify the year)”, in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], volume I, London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], →OCLC, pages 474-475:
- 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, “Chapter 24”, in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall[1]:
- ‘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, editor, Far Future Calling: Uncollected Science Fiction and Fantasies of Olaf Stapledon[2], published 1979:
- As I listened I interjected an occasional sentence of Japanese translation for our guests.
- 21 August 2000, Julian Barnes, “The Hardest Test: Drugs and the Tour de France”, in The New Yorker[3]:
- 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.”
- (intransitive) To interpose oneself; to intervene.
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Translations[edit]
to insert something between other things
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to interpose onseself
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