MEANING
1. To place something between other things or people.
2. To intervene in an event or disagreement, often to restrain or mediate.
3. To insert a remark or question into a conversation.
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Words that belong together
- interpose a barrier
- interpose oneself between
On the page
She interposed the chair between the child and the broken glass.
He interposed himself between the two men without raising his voice.
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Word forms
- Base
- interpose
- Past tense
- interposed
- Past participle
- interposed
- Present participle
- interposing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- interpose
- Present continuous
- am/is/are interposing
- Present perfect
- have/has interposed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been interposing
- Past
- interposed
- Past continuous
- was/were interposing
- Past perfect
- had interposed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been interposing
- Future
- will interpose
- Future continuous
- will be interposing
- Future perfect
- will have interposed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been interposing
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: interpose; interposes; interposed; interposed; interposing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: interposes.
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