Word Meanings - INTERCEPT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To include between; as, that part of the intercepted between the points A and B. Syn. -- To cut off; stop; catch; seize; obstruct. (more info) intercept; inter between + capere to take, seize: cf. F. intercepter. 1. To take or seize by the way,

Additional info about word: INTERCEPT

To include between; as, that part of the intercepted between the points A and B. Syn. -- To cut off; stop; catch; seize; obstruct. (more info) intercept; inter between + capere to take, seize: cf. F. intercepter. 1. 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. God will shortly intercept your breath. Joye. 2. To obstruct or interrupt the progress of; to stop; to hinder or oppose; as, to intercept the current of a river. Who intercepts me in my expedition Shak. We must meet first, and intercept his course. Dryden. 3. To interrupt communication with, or progress toward; to cut off, as the destination; to blockade. While storms vindictive intercept the shore. Pope.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INTERCEPT)

• Anticipate
• Forestall
• prejudge
• expect
• foretaste
• apprehend
• prevent
• prearrange
• prepare
• meet
• obviate
• intercept
• forecast
• Prevent
• Hinder
• obstruct
• bar
• neutralize
• nullify
• thwart
• anticipate
• forefend
• frustrate
• checkmate
• Veil
• Intercept
• hide
• screen
• disguise
• palliate
• mask
• cover
• conceal

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INTERCEPT)

• Expose
• reveal
• betray
• exhibit
• produce
• mis-suffice
• Open
• expose
• surrender
• aggravate
• exaggerate
• prosecute

Related words: (words related to INTERCEPT)

• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• NEUTRALIZE
  To render inert or imperceptible the peculiar affinities of, as a chemical substance; to destroy the effect of; as, to neutralize an acid with a base. 3. To destroy the peculiar or opposite dispositions of; to reduce to a state of indifference
• SCREENINGS
  The refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• PREJUDGE
  To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand. The committee of council hath prejudged the whole case, by calling the united sense of both houses of Parliament" a
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• INTERCEPTION
  The act of intercepting; as, interception of a letter; interception of the enemy.
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• CONCEALED
  Hidden; kept from sight; secreted. -- Con*ceal"ed*ly (, adv. -- Con*ceal"ed*ness, n. Concealed weapons , dangerous weapons so carried on the person as to be knowingly or willfully concealed from sight, -- a practice forbidden by statute.
• INTERCEPT
  To include between; as, that part of the intercepted between the points A and B. Syn. -- To cut off; stop; catch; seize; obstruct. (more info) intercept; inter between + capere to take, seize: cf. F. intercepter. 1. To take or seize by the way,
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• INTERCEPTIVE
  Intercepting or tending to intercept.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• FRUSTRATE
  Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect. "Our frustrate search." Shak. (more info) to deceive, frustrate, fr. frustra in vain, witout effect, in erorr,
• APPREHEND
  of, seize; prae before + -hendere ; akin to Gr. 1. To take or seize; to take hold of. We have two hands to apprehended it. Jer. Taylor. 2. Hence: To take or seize by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal. 3. To take hold of with
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• PREVENTINGLY
  So as to prevent or hinder.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• INEXPECTABLE
  Not to be expected or anticipated. Bp. Hall.
• UNEXPECTATION
  Absence of expectation; want of foresight. Bp. Hall.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• OVERTHWARTLY
  In an overthwart manner;across; also, perversely. Peacham.
• UNEXPECTED
  Not expected; coming without warning; sudden. -- Un`ex*pect"ed*ly, adv. -- Un`ex*pect"ed*ness, n.