All 5 Uses of
intercept
in
War and Peace
- He was about to stoop over her hand and kiss it, but with a rapid, almost brutal movement of her head, she intercepted his lips and met them with her own.†
Chpt 3 *
- "Come to the mistress, please," said the footman in his deep bass, intercepting any retreat.†
Chpt 8
- Marya Dmitrievna, having found Sonya weeping in the corridor, made her confess everything, and intercepting the note to Natasha she read it and went into Natasha's room with it in her hand.†
Chpt 8
- Karay, with all the strength age had left him, stretched himself to the utmost and, watching the wolf, galloped heavily aside to intercept it.†
Chpt 7
- Natasha kept looking uneasily at everybody with wide-open eyes, as if wishing to intercept every glance directed toward her, and tried to appear the same as usual.†
Chpt 8
Definitions:
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(1)
(intercept) to stop, catch, or block the intended course of something or someone
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In mathematical graphing, an intercept is a point at which a line intersects either the vertical or horizontal axis.