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inject, insert, interject, interpolate, interpose,

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in⋅ter⋅lard

[in-ter-lahrd]

–verb (used with object)

1.	to diversify by adding or interjecting something unique, striking, or contrasting (usually fol. by with): to interlard one's speech with oaths.

2.	(of things) to be intermixed in.

3.	Obsolete. to mix, as fat with lean meat.

Origin:
1525–35; inter- + lard; r. enterlard < MF entrelarder

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in·ter·lard (ĭn'tər-lärd') Pronunciation Key
tr.v. in·ter·lard·ed, in·ter·lard·ing, in·ter·lards
To insert something foreign into: interlarded the narrative with witty remarks.

[Middle English interlarden, to mix fat into, from Old French entrelarder : entre-, between (from Latin inter-; see inter-) + larder, to lard (from lard, lard; see lard).]

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interlard

1533, "to mix with alternate layers of fat" (before cooking), from M.Fr. entrelarder, from entre- "between" + larder "to lard," from O.Fr. lard "bacon fat." Figurative sense of "diversify with something intermixed" first recorded 1563.

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interlard
verb
introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions [syn: intersperse]

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Interlard

In`ter*lard"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Interlarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Interlarding.] [F. entrelarder. See Inter-, and Lard.]

1. To place lard or bacon amongst; to mix, as fat meat with lean. [Obs.]

Whose grain doth rise in flakes, with fatness interlarded. --Drayton.

2. Hence: To insert between; to mix or mingle; especially, to introduce that which is foreign or irrelevant; as, to interlard a conservation with oaths or allusions.

The English laws . . . [were] mingled and interlarded with many particular laws of their own. --Sir M. Hale.

They interlard their native drinks with choice Of strongest brandy. --J. Philips.

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