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interpose

SYLLABICATION:	in·ter·pose
PRONUNCIATION:	ntr-pz
VERB:	Inflected forms: in·ter·posed, in·ter·pos·ing, in·ter·pos·es
TRANSITIVE VERB:	1a. To insert or introduce between parts. b. To place (oneself) between others or things. 2. To introduce or interject (a comment, for example) during discourse or a conversation. See synonyms at introduce. 3. To exert (influence or authority) in order to interfere or intervene: interpose one's veto.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:	1. To come between things; assume an intervening position. 2. To come between the parties in a dispute; intervene. 3. To insert a remark, question, or argument.
ETYMOLOGY:	French, from Old French interposer, to intervene, alteration (influenced by poser, to put, place) of Latin interpnere, to put between : inter-, inter- + pnere, to put; see apo- in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS:	inter·posal —NOUN inter·poser —NOUN inter·po·sition (-p-zshn) —NOUN


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