interject
To insert something between other things.
Verb
- To insert something between other things.
- 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.” - 1791, James Boswell, “(please specify the...
- ‘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...
- As I listened I interjected an occasional sentence of Japanese translation for our guests. - 1934, Olaf Stapledon, “East is West”, in Sam Moskowitz, editor, Far Future Calling: Uncollected Science Fiction and Fantasies...
- To interpose oneself; to intervene.
Origin
From Latin interiectus, perfect passive participle of intericiō (“place between”).