interject
verb
- insert into a conversation
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ɪn.təˈdʒɛkt/ / /ɪn.tɚˈd͡ʒɛkt/
verb
Etymology: From Latin interiectus, perfect passive participle of intericiō (“place between”).
- To insert something between other things.
- 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.””
“‘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.”
- To interpose oneself; to intervene.