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intervary

intervary verb: to alter or vary between; to change between.

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete) To alter or vary between; to change between.
    • we may regard half the words of language as emphatic : since they are perpetually inter-varying by slight differences in force , and quantity1827, James Rush, The Philosophy of the Human Voice
    • 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

Forms of intervary

third-person singular presentintervaries
present participleintervarying
past participleintervaried
pastintervaried

Origin of intervary

From inter- + vary.

Questions about intervary

What does intervary mean?
Intervary means to alter or vary between; to change between.
What part of speech is intervary?
Intervary is a verb.
What is the past tense of intervary?
The past tense of intervary is intervaried.

Words near intervary in the dictionary

  1. intervaried
  2. intervaries
  3. intervarietal
  4. intervarsities
  5. intervarsity
  6. intervary
  7. intervarying
  8. intervascular
  9. intervasion
  10. intervasions
  11. intervehicle

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