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   In·ter·sperse

   /ˌin(t)ərˈspərs/

   

   verb

   • 1. scatter among or between other things; place here and there: "interspersed between tragic stories are a few songs supplying comic relief" Similar scatterdistributedispersespreadstrewdotsprinklepepperlitterliterary:bestrew
   • ▪ diversify (a thing or things) with other things at intervals: "a patchwork of open fields interspersed with copses of pine" Similar intermixmixminglevarydiversifyvariegatepunctuate

   Word Origin mid 16th century (in the sense ‘diversify (something) by introducing other things at intervals’): from Latin interspers- ‘scattered between’, from interspergere, from inter- ‘between’ + spargere ‘scatter’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. interspersion noun

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