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INTERPOSE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

To insert between other elements

Example:

She interjected clever remarks

Synonyms:

come in; inject; interject; interpose; put in; throw in

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "interpose" is one way to...):

break up; cut off; disrupt; interrupt (make a break in)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

interposition (the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others)

interposition (the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Introduce

Example:

God interposed death

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "interpose" is one way to...):

introduce (bring in or establish in a new place or environment)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Be or come between

Example:

An interposing thicket blocked their way

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force

Example:

Why did the U.S. not intervene earlier in WW II?

Synonyms:

interfere; interpose; intervene; step in

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "interpose" is one way to...):

interact (act together or towards others or with others)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "interpose"):

meddle; tamper (intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly)

interlope (encroach on the rights of others, as in trading without a proper license)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Credits

 Context examples: 

“I beg of you not to receive false impressions of us from Mr. Van Weyden,” he interposed with mock anxiety.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Rather was it some sense of law, an ethic of her race and early environment, that compelled her to interpose her body between her husband and the helpless murderer.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

A sheet of amorphous extracellular material upon which the basal surfaces of epithelial cells rest and is the covering surface of a glomerular capillary, interposed between the cellular elements and the underlying connective tissue.

(Glomerular Basement Membrane, NCI Thesaurus)

Mrs Musgrove interposed.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

You will not, I hope, consider me as showing any disrespect to your family, my dear madam, by thus withdrawing my pretensions to your daughter's favour, without having paid yourself and Mr. Bennet the compliment of requesting you to interpose your authority in my behalf.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Of whom, cried Sir Oliver, I look more particularly to St. James of Compostella, who hath already befriended us this day, and on whose feast I hereby vow that I shall eat a second carp, if he will but interpose a second time.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“And she won't go home,” he interposed, shaking his head mournfully.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My daughters, replied Sir Thomas, gravely interposing, have their pleasures at Brighton, and I hope are very happy; but the dance which I think of giving at Mansfield will be for their cousins.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

"But he is not all wolf," interposed Beth, standing for her brother in his absence.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"Oh! I daresay she is crying because she could not go out with Missis in the carriage," interposed Bessie.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)