intercept
v.v. to stop or catch something before it reaches the place it was going. You use this when you grab a ball, a message, or a person on their way somewhere.
v. to obstruct or seize someone or something in transit before they reach their intended destination. Often describes the act of catching a pass in sports or capturing electronic signals in a military or security context.
The police managed to intercept the stolen car before it reached the border.
The defender jumped high to intercept the pass, preventing the other team from scoring a touchdown.
Intelligence agencies worked for months to intercept the encrypted communications, eventually uncovering the network's primary base of operations through signal triangulation.
Borrowed from Latin interceptum, past participle of intercipiō.
The verb is transitive and requires a direct object representing the entity being stopped.
The player intercepted to the ball.The player intercepted the ball.Intercept is a transitive verb and does not take the preposition 'to' before its object.