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What is the verb for interposing?

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interpose
  1. (transitive) To insert something (or oneself) between other things.
  2. (transitive) To interrupt a conversation by introducing a different subject or making a comment.
  3. (intransitive) To be inserted between parts or things; to come between.
  4. (intransitive) To intervene in a dispute, or in a conversation.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “I place a bit of glass inside a spiral of wire and interpose it between the crossed Nicol's prisms.”
      “I am fascinated at the prospect of your education, and I shall insist on hearing it entire, but I wonder if I could interpose a question or two.”
      “Mr. Gladstone thought fit to interpose in the conflict and offered his services to his old colleague in order to put an end to it.”
interpone
interposes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interpose
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Civilization is pernicious also because it interposes a veil of artificiality between the individual and the natural objects of experience.”
      “Materialism interposes itself as an immense obstacle in the road of the spirit's evolution.”
      “The soft pedal in the square piano simply interposes a piece of felt between each hammer and its corresponding string or strings.”
interposeth
  1. (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interpose
interposest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of interpose
interposed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of interpose
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  3. Examples:
    1. “For all subjects, a rest period of at least 60 seconds was interposed between the two 96 trial blocks.”
      “Suppose that, although a vase is directly in front of S, a laser photograph is interposed between it and S, thereby blocking it from S's view.”
      “Carroll called the given words doublets, the interposed words links, and the complete series a chain.”
interposing
  1. present participle of interpose
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It is possible to iron to a maximum temperature of 110 degrees interposing a white fabric of cotton.”
      “Soon he was swinging chairs, shoving men, interposing himself into dancing couples.”
      “There is no fictional disguise interposing itself between himself and the reader.”
interponing
  1. present participle of interpone
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