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INTERJECT

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 I. (verb) 

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they interject  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it interjects  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Past simple: interjected  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Past participle: interjected  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

-ing form: interjecting  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Sense 1

Meaning:

To insert between other elementsplay

Example:

She interjected clever remarks

Synonyms:

come in; inject; interject; interpose; put in; throw in

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "interject" is one way to...):

break up; cut off; disrupt; interrupt (make a break in)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

interjection (the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts)

interjection (an abrupt emphatic exclamation expressing emotion)

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