interlineate
Americanverb (used with object)
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Etymology
Origin of interlineate
1615–25; < Medieval Latin interlīneātus, past participle of interlīneāre to interline 1; see -ate 1
Example Sentences
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And so he wove a web of Empsonian doubleness and interlineated meaning into a Cold War “text” that was brutally simple in intention.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 26, 2019
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