Dictionary Entry
interpose
interpose is a 9-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To place between; as, to interpose a screen between the eye and the light. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To place between; as, to interpose a screen between the eye and the light.
- 2transitive verb
To thrust; to intrude; to between, either for aid or for troubling.
- 3transitive verb
To introduce or inject between the parts of a conversation or argument.
- 4intransitive verb
To be or come between.
- 5intransitive verb
To step in between parties at variance; to mediate; as, the prince interposed and made peace.
- 6intransitive verb
To utter a sentiment by way of interruption.
- 7noun
Interposition.
- 8verb
to insert between other elements
"She interjected clever remarks"
- 9verb
introduce
"God interposed death"
- 10verb
be or come between
"An interposing thicket blocked their way"
- 11verb
get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force
"Why did the U.S. not intervene earlier in WW II?"
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