How to spell intercept

Intercept is spelled I-N-T-E-R-C-E-P-T.

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What it means: To seize or capture something on its way.

In a sentence: The superhero tried to intercept the bad guy's plans to save the day.

Same family: interception, interceptor, intercepted, intercepting, interceptive. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Intercept” comes from Latin *intercipere*, meaning “to seize in between” (*inter* = between, *capere* = to take). The modern sense of intercepting phone calls and messages is a technological extension of this older idea of catching something before it reaches its destination.

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