interdigitate
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prettygoodwordinterdigitate (in-ter-DIJ-i-tayt) - n., to become folded or interlaced together like the fingers of clasped hands; to intermingle, to alternately present items from one group and then another.
Things can be interdigitated by someone or can interdigitate themselves -- though that figurative extension seems to be used more as a transitive verb. Coined around 1850 from Latin roots inter-, between/in the midst of + digitus, finger.
---L.
Things can be interdigitated by someone or can interdigitate themselves -- though that figurative extension seems to be used more as a transitive verb. Coined around 1850 from Latin roots inter-, between/in the midst of + digitus, finger.
---L.
