Verb

(interfus)

To fuse or blend together

*{{quote-book, year=1861, author=Various, title=Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, No. 48, October, 1861, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=They seem to be so interfused with the emotions of the soul, that they strike upon the heart almost like the living touch of a spirit. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1909, author=William James, title=A Pluralistic Universe, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Novelty, as empirically found, doesn't arrive by jumps and jolts, it leaks in insensibly, for adjacents in experience are always interfused , the smallest real datum being both a coming and a going, and even numerical distinctness being realized effectively only after a concrete interval has passed. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1914, author=May Sinclair, title=The Three Sisters, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=It was interfused and tangled with Greatorex's sublimest feelings. }}

Verb

(interspers)

To mix two things irregularly, placing things of one kind among things of other:

* 1991 , Frank Biocca, Television and Political Advertising: Signs, codes, and images , page 76:

For example, a commercial sequence might intersperse pictures of a senator working in his office with shots of ordinary Americans happily working in various walks of life.

# To scatter or insert (something) into or among (other things).

Mother Nature interspersed a few dandelions among the petunias, but it was a pretty garden, anyway.

#* 1985 , Jane Y. Murdock, Barbara V. Hartmann, Communication and language intervention program (CLIP) for individuals with moderate to severe handicaps , page 46:

Review tasks are particularly useful to intersperse when students are experiencing considerable failure.

# To place or insert — to diversify by placing or inserting — other things among (something).

Mother Nature interspersed the petunias with a few dandelions, but it was a pretty garden, anyway.