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How to pronounce interpose in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms interfere, intervene, step in
Type of interact
Has types tamper, interlope, meddle
Type Words
Synonyms come in, inject, interject, put in, throw in
Type of break up, interrupt, disrupt, cut off
Derivation interposition
Type Words
Type of introduce


God interposed death.

Examples of interpose

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It is the duty of state legislatures to interpose and stop the progress of evil.
From the infowars.com
If you interpose more than two walls between you and the transmitter, forget about it.
From the techcrunch.com
The people using their States to interpose between themselves and federal usurpations and aggressions.
From the infowars.com
He sent Jackson on another flanking march in an attempt to interpose his army between Pope and Washington.
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Nerthus is believed to directly interpose in human affairs.
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It would be silly to interpose a title and novel definition between ourselves and success of this important work.
From the smallwarsjournal.com
In such cases, self-interest is often an unsafe guide, and the legislature may properly interpose its authority.
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They advanced along the east side of the Blue Ridge Mountains, trying to interpose themselves between Lee's army and Richmond.
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Too often, well-meaning diplomats or peacekeepers interpose themselves in conflicts that should be left to burn themselves out.
From the theatlantic.com
More examples
  • Be or come between; "An interposing thicket blocked their way"
  • Introduce; "God interposed death"
  • Interject: to insert between other elements; "She interjected clever remarks"
  • Intervene: 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?"
  • (interposition) interjection: the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts
  • Interposition, in the context of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, refers to an asserted right of U.S. states to protect their individual interests from federal violation or any abridgement of states' rights deemed by those states to be dangerous or unconstitutional. ...
  • To insert something (or oneself) between other things; To interrupt a conversation by introducing a different subject or making a comment; To be inserted between parts or things; To intervene in a dispute, or in a conversation
  • (Interposed) Alternately disposed.
  • (Interposition) overlap o/a near object by a more distant object