interject.

1. To add a brief remark or question while someone else is speaking.

2. To insert something, often abruptly, between or among parts of something already in progress.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• interject a remark
• interject a question
• interject a comment
• interject with a correction
• may I interject

On the page

“The door was already open,” Mira interjected before the detective could finish.

When the chair mentioned a unanimous decision, one member interjected with a quiet objection.

May I interject to clarify which year those figures describe?

The novelist interjects brief news bulletins between the family’s letters.

Without warning, the documentary interjected a comic animation into its sober account of the trial.

Usage notes

Verb, transitive or intransitive. Base: interject; third-person singular: interjects; simple past and past participle: interjected; present participle: interjecting; future: will interject. Patterns: interject a remark or question; interject something into a discussion; interject with a question; interject followed by direct speech. In the broader insertion use, normally transitive. Say interrupt someone, not normally interject someone. Related interjection is a noun, not a verb form. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common, especially in dialogue narration and formal discussion (dictionary-informed qualitative editorial estimate; not a measured frequency).