interject

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to insert between other elements

   I interjected clever remarks into the conversation.

2. 2
   verb

   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.”

3. 3
   verb

   To insert something between other things.

4. 4
   verb

   To interpose oneself; to intervene.

Etymology

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