interpose

Meaning

Verb

• To insert something (or oneself) between other things.
• To interrupt a conversation by introducing a different subject or making a comment.
• To offer (one's help or services).
• To be inserted between parts or things; to come between.
• To intervene in a dispute, or in a conversation.

Related

Similar words

• insert
• interrupt

Origin

• From Middle French interposer, influenced by poser, from Latin interpōnō, from inter + pōnō.