In years gone by, letters and documents being carried between officers or officials were sometimes intercepted when the carrier was caught; today, when these communications are generally …

INTERCEPTED definition: 1. past simple and past participle of intercept 2. to stop and catch something or someone before…. Learn more.

1. To stop, deflect, or interrupt the progress or intended course of: intercepted me with a message as I was leaving. 2. Sports a. To gain possession of (an opponent's pass), as in football or basketball. b. …

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If you intercept someone or something that is travelling from one place to another, you stop them before they get to their destination. Police officers intercepted him on his way to the airport.

Definition of intercept verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. intercept somebody/something to stop somebody/something that is going from one place to another from …

INTERCEPT definition: to take, seize, or halt (someone or something on the way from one place to another); cut off from an intended destination. See examples of intercept used in a sentence.

to see or overhear (a message, transmission, etc., meant for another): We intercepted the enemy's battle plan. to stop or check (passage, travel, etc.): to intercept the traitor's escape.

Simple past tense and past participle of intercept. On the defeat of the royal army Leslie, intercepted in his retreat through Yorkshire, was committed to the Tower, where he remained till the Restoration in …

These were first Russian fighters intercepted by NATO's Baltic air police this year, civil aviation over the Baltic Sea was endangered because of the secretive way the airplanes flew.