interject

UK/ɪn.təˈdʒɛkt//ɪn.tɚˈd͡ʒɛkt/

interject verb: to insert something between other things.

Verb

interject (third-person singular simple present interjects, present participle interjecting, simple past and past participle interjected)

(transitive) To insert something between other things.

Synonyms:

insert
(transitive) To say as an interruption or aside.
- 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.”1791, James Boswell, “(please specify the year)”, in James Boswell, editor, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], volume I, London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], →OCLC, pages 474-475
- ‘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.1848, Anne Brontë, “Chapter 24”, in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
(intransitive) To interpose oneself; to intervene.

Synonyms:

interpose, intervene

interject meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

interject in Urdu

آڑے آنا, بیچ میں ڈالنا, حائل کرنا, مداخلت کرنا

interject in Bengali

মাঝখানে কথা বলা, মন্তব্য করা

interject in Malayalam

throw in, interpose, introduce: ഇടയിൽ ചേർക്കുക, മധ്യേവയ്ക്കുക, മധ്യേചെലുത്തുക, തിരുകിച്ചേർക്കുക, കുത്തിത്തിരുകുക, ഇടയ്ക്കു കൊണ്ടുവന്നു തടസ്സപ്പെടുത്തുക
intervene, interrupt, cut in: ഇടയ്ക്കുകയറി പറയുക, തടസ്സപ്പെടുത്തുക, ഇടയ്ക്കു വീഴുക, ഇടപെടുക, ഇടയ്ക്കുവരിക, ഇടയിൽ ചാടുക

interject in Kannada

ಒಳಸೇರಿಸು, ನಡುವೆ ಸೇರಿಸು

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interject in Tagalog: isingit

Examples of interject in a sentence

As I listened I interjected an occasional sentence of Japanese translation for our guests.1934, Olaf Stapledon, “East is West”, in Sam Moskowitz, editor, Far Future Calling: Uncollected Science Fiction and Fantasies of Olaf...
No, I am not a dealer.” […] Whereupon Virenque’s lawyer interjected, “No, Richard, the judge said leader.21 August 2000, Julian Barnes, “The Hardest Test: Drugs and the Tour de France”, in The New Yorker:

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Synonyms of interject

Forms of interject

third-person singular present	interjects
present participle	interjecting
past participle	interjected
past	interjected

Past tense of interject: interjected

Origin of interject

From Latin interiectus, perfect passive participle of intericiō (“place between”).

Words formed from interject

Words that rhyme with interject

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Questions about interject

What does interject mean?: Interject means to insert something between other things.
What is interject in Urdu?: Interject in Urdu is آڑے آنا, بیچ میں ڈالنا, حائل کرنا. See Interject meaning in Urdu.
How do you use interject in a sentence?: As I listened I interjected an occasional sentence of Japanese translation for our guests.
What part of speech is interject?: Interject is a verb.
How do you pronounce interject?: Interject is pronounced /ɪn.təˈdʒɛkt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of interject?: The past tense of interject is interjected.

Words near interject in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: interject (page history and authors); interject (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Interject (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); interject (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); interject (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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