interpose
Meanings
Verb
- be or come between
- introduce
- "God interposed death"
- to insert between other elements
- get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force
- To insert something (or oneself) between other things.
- To interrupt a conversation by introducing a different subject or making a comment.
- To offer (one's help or services).
- To be inserted between parts or things; to come between.
- To intervene in a dispute, or in a conversation.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle French interposer, influenced by poser (“to place, put”), from Latin interpōnō, from inter (“between”) + pōnō (“to place, put”).
Synonyms
come in, inject, insert, interfere, interject, interrupt, intervene, put in, step in, throw in
Scrabble Score: 11
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