intercept
verb
• obstruct (someone or something) so as to prevent them from continuing to a destination.
• "intelligence agencies intercepted a series of telephone calls"
Similar:
stop,
head off,
cut off,
catch,
seize,
grab,
snatch,
expropriate,
commandeer,
obstruct,
impede,
interrupt,
block,
check,
detain,
attack,
ambush,
take on,
challenge,
pounce on,
swoop down on,
waylay,
accost,
tackle,
confront,
buttonhole,
intercept
noun
• an act or instance of intercepting something.
• "he read the file of radio intercepts"
Origin:
late Middle English (in the senses ‘contain between limits’ and ‘halt (an effect’)): from Latin intercept- ‘caught between’, from the verb intercipere, from inter- ‘between’ + capere ‘take’.
