2020-06-08

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Intercept

verb
    obstruct (someone or something) so as to prevent them from continuing to a destination.
        - "At points like Green Corner or any of the other intersections along Park Street, a handful of policemen could be seen, wholly incapable of preventing crime or intercepting criminals."
    Synonyms: stop, head off, cut off, catch, seize, grab, snatch, obstruct, impede, interrupt, block, check, detain, ambush, challenge, waylay

noun
    an act or instance of intercepting something.
        - "The Government says it must suspend the right to a trial, because trials would jeopardise the secret telephone intercepts of the security services."

Synonyms
    verb
        - stop, head off, cut off, catch, seize, grab, snatch, obstruct, impede, interrupt, block, check, detain, ambush, challenge, waylay
        - stop
        - bug, tap, wiretap

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rabbit hole

兔子洞
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debt
/det/

noun
    something, typically money, that is owed or due.
        - "However, it is likely to mean people looking to take out a loan to consolidate their debt will have to pay more after today."
    Synonyms: bill, account, dues, arrears, charges, financial obligation, outstanding payment, check, tab

Synonyms
    noun
        - bill, account, dues, arrears, charges, financial obligation, outstanding payment, check, tab
        - indebtedness, obligation, gratitude, appreciation, thanks

Examples
    - They have to sell a player each year to balance the books but they are not up to their ears in debt like many Brazilian teams.

    - Though acknowledging a debt to the genre, Phillips says he had no specific models in mind.

    - It may be the season to be jolly, but most of us are just up to our eyes in debt, run off our feet and completely partied out.

    - Needing money to pay off a debt, he tries to rob a wealthy neighbour and is finally arrested and jailed.

    - * Total U.S. household credit card debtis more than $600 billion.

    - It truly is the end of an era but the people of Hull owe him a great debt and we must look at the great strides the city has made while has been leader.

    - I grew up in the years when to be in debt was shameful.

    - Although companies are allowed to send reminders to a person in debt, they are not allowed to harass someone.

    - In his late 20's, he's a sharp dresser, big smoker, has a mortgage and is up to his eyes in debt.

    - How can you repay such a debt to a friend who tells you about a writer like Roth?

    - In the film, Reeves plays a luckless, down-at-heel gambler heavily in debt to the bookies.

    - Yet he is always careful to acknowledge the debt he owes the series for boosting his public profile.

    - Our students in Canada don't need to be coming to college and coming out in debt.

    - I have never really been in debt and I would never buy anything I couldn't afford.

    - He took the cash when he was in debt to the tune of several thousand pounds.

    - However, it is likely to mean people looking to take out a loan to consolidate their debt will have to pay more after today.

    - Although the man did owe small sums of money, there is no evidence to suggest that he was heavily in debt.

    - It warns that we are getting deeper in debt and that a house price bubble still hangs over the economy.

    - we owe them a debt of thanks

    - This authority is so much in debt but they could cut the rates if they ran it properly and looked into the cost of repairing houses.

    - the firm is heavily in debt

    - His early works owe a debt to van Gogh and Breitner, the Dutch Impressionist.

    - Personal bankruptcies are booming precisely because it's so easy to get in debt.

    - I would like to acknowledge my debt to my teachers

    - The point is that horror fiction, especially gothic horror fiction seems to owe a debt to St Augustine.

    - More interesting is the debt Sinatra owed D' Amato, who served as the young singer's role model.

    - He spoke of the debt we owe to the nation's founders and to the documents they left us.

    - He says that every year or two a movie comes along that owes Stevenson an obvious debt.

    - The country spends a third of its budget on servicing its debt to western banks.

    - He scared me the first few times I encountered him, but I owe him a huge debt.