interpose
📖 Definitions
verb tr., intr.
1. To place in between.
2. To intrude or to interrupt.
noun
1. The act of, or an instance of, putting something in between.
2. An interference or interruption.
💬 Usage Examples
“‘Right -- of course we’re doing right,’ William answered her, ‘if, after what you’ve heard, you can marry a man of such incomprehensible confusion, such deplorable --’ ‘Don’t, William,’ Katharine interposed.” Virginia Woolf; Night and Day; Duckworth; 1919. “Most remarkable is the interpose of Christmas dance during the interval at Sara’s. [Walter Murch’s journal]” Charles Koppelman; Behind the Seen; Pearson; 2004.