Interject

Quick meaning: Interject is a verb meaning (transitive) To insert something between other things.

Meaning

(transitive) To insert something between other things.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To say as an interruption or aside.
2. (intransitive) To interpose oneself; to intervene.

Example Sentences

As I listened I interjected an occasional sentence of Japanese translation for our guests.

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.”

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.”

‘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.

Word Forms

• interjects
• interjecting
• interjected

Synonyms for interject

Depending on context, synonyms include insert, interpose, intervene, inject, put in, throw in.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include interpose, put in, throw in, inject, intervene, tell.

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