Interlay

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To insert layers of a different material between. transitive

    "Each pair of pages of the book is interlaid by carbon paper."

  2. 2
    simple past of interlie form-of, past

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"Each pair of pages of the book is interlaid by carbon paper."

Etymology

From inter- + lay.

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