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1. Seize on its way
   "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace"
   - stop
    
2. Secretly listen in on a communication channel (esp. a telephone) in order to get information
   "The FBI was intercepting the phone line of the suspected spy"
   - wiretap, tap, bug

1. The point at which a line intersects a coordinate axis

Derived forms: intercepted, intercepting, intercepts

See also: interception, interceptor

Type of: catch, earwig [Brit], eavesdrop, grab, listen in, point, take hold of

Encyclopedia: Intercept