5 uses
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Definition
to stop or catch someone or something in route
- I saw your vessel, and fearful of being left to perish on the desolate island, I swam off on a piece of wreckage to try and intercept your course.Chapters 22-23 (39% in)
- They were within fifteen miles of Monte Cristo when the sun began to set behind Corsica, whose mountains appeared against the sky, showing their rugged peaks in bold relief; this mass of rock, like the giant Adamastor, rose dead ahead, a formidable barrier, and intercepting the light that gilded its massive peaks so that the voyagers were in shadow.Chapters 31-32 (14% in)
- Well, I have not intercepted your confidence, and yet I know all that as well as you, and I have no conscientious scruples.Chapters 93-94 (61% in)
- Do not play with the thunderbolt they have laid aside for a moment, but which they can take up again instantly, if you attempt to intercept their movements.Chapters 107-108 (40% in)
- Can I have been intercepted by French telegrams to the pontifical authorities?Chapters 113-114 (81% in)
There are no more uses of "intercept" in The Count of Monte Cristo.
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