intervary

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verb

To alter or vary between; to change between.

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Meanings

verbintervary (third-person singular simple present intervaries, present participle intervarying, simple past and past participle intervaried)

present singular third person intervaries · participle present intervarying · participle past intervaried · past intervaried

  1. obsoleteTo alter or vary between; to change between.

    The /w/ in NWMek represents a weak variety of [w] pronounced with spread lips, freely intervarying with a true vowel [o].

    1998, Alan A. Jones, Towards a lexicogrammar of Mekeo: an Austronesian language of West Central Papua
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    we may regard half the words of language as emphatic : since they are perpetually inter-varying by slight differences in force , and quantity

    1827, James Rush, The Philosophy of the Human Voice

Origin

From inter- + vary.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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