MEANING
To distribute or insert at intervals among other things.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- intersperse details
- intersperse with pauses
On the page
She interspersed the account with details from the surviving letters.
Long pauses were interspersed with brief, guarded replies.
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Word forms
- Base
- intersperse
- Past tense
- interspersed
- Past participle
- interspersed
- Present participle
- interspersing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- intersperse
- Present continuous
- am/is/are interspersing
- Present perfect
- have/has interspersed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been interspersing
- Past
- interspersed
- Past continuous
- was/were interspersing
- Past perfect
- had interspersed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been interspersing
- Future
- will intersperse
- Future continuous
- will be interspersing
- Future perfect
- will have interspersed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been interspersing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: intersperse; intersperses; interspersed; interspersed; interspersing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: intersperses.
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