verb (used with object), in·ter·spersed, in·ter·spers·ing.
1.
to scatter here and there or place at intervals among other things: to intersperse flowers among shrubs.
2.
to diversify with something placed or scattered at intervals: to intersperse a dull speech with interesting anecdotes.
Origin: 1560–70; < Latininterspersus (past participle of interspergere to strew here and there), equivalent to inter-inter- + -spersus, combining form of sparsus, past participle of spargere to scatter; see disperse