Crossword-Solution: INTERCEPT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Intercept | v. t. | 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. |
| Intercept | v. t. | To obstruct or interrupt the progress of; to stop; to hinder or oppose; as, to intercept the current of a river. |
| Intercept | v. t. | To interrupt communication with, or progress toward; to cut off, as the destination; to blockade. |
| Intercept | v. t. | To include between; as, that part of the line which is intercepted between the points A and B. |
| Intercept | n. | A part cut off or intercepted, as a portion of a line included between two points, or cut off two straight lines or curves. |
We have 30 clues for the answer “INTERCEPT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Thwart a pass | 1 answer |
| Steal a football pass | 1 answer |
| Pick off a pass | 1 answer |
| Catch the other team's pass | 1 answer |
| pick off | 4 answers |
| Stop on the way | 5 answers |
| Head off | 16 answers |
| intercept | 19 answers |
| Preclude | 33 answers |
| Ambush | 42 answers |
| MOVE past | 44 answers |
| Anticipate | 48 answers |
| Interrupt | 49 answers |
| deter | 49 answers |
| Overpower | 51 answers |
| Forestall | 53 answers |
| Deflect | 54 answers |
| Confiscate | 54 answers |
| Foil | 57 answers |
| Pick up | 63 answers |
| CURB ___ | 63 answers |
| retard | 64 answers |
| Cut off | 64 answers |
| Impede | 67 answers |
| Obliterate | 67 answers |
| Obstruct | 71 answers |
| Grasp | 73 answers |
| Catch ___ | 73 answers |
| Fasten | 80 answers |
| Take | 94 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with INTERCEPT (5)
They were all stalking seaward, as if to intercept the escape of the multitudinous vessels that were crowded between Foulness and the Naze.
All these things are instruments; and I, too, am an instrument.” He looked up in time to intercept a quick, startled glance from Thea.
When the king ape released the limp form which had been John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, he turned his attention toward the little cradle; but Kala was there before him, and when he would have grasped the child she snatched it herself, and before he could intercept her she had bolted through the door and taken refuge in a high tree.
The current viral defenses include signature identification, cyclic redundancy checks and intercept verifica- tion, but the new viruses can combat those as a matter of rule.
Unprepared for such a desperate effort, for she had hitherto stood perfectly motionless, Bois-Guilbert had neither time to intercept nor to stop her.
Quotes with INTERCEPT (3)
Later times have laid all the blame upon the Goths and Vandals, but, however unwilling the partizans of the Christian system may be to believe or to acknowledge it, it is nevertheless true, that the age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system. There was more knowledge in the world before that period, than for many centuries afterwards; and as to religious knowledge, the Christian system, as already said, was only another species of mythology; and the mythology to whi…
... I don't know what I feel anymore, or maybe it's that I don't know HOW to feel anymore. I question every move I make, every breath I take, and every flutter of an eyelash. I've developed a twitch from always being on guard. I'm alert at night, and numb during the day, but I'm always ready. Maybe, I can intercept tragedy from striking again.
You must intercept the passing time well, hence it will fly away into vanity.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1976–2015).