intercede
IPA: ɪntɝsˈid
verb
- (intransitive) To plead on someone else's behalf.
- (intransitive) To act as a mediator in a dispute; to arbitrate or mediate.
- To pass between; to intervene.
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Examples of "intercede" in Sentences
- 'intercede' two brothers walking down the sidewalk.
- In big swaths of the country people felt that the federal government had no constitutional right to intercede in their jurisdiction.
- We thought Khomeini would probably intercede and free the hostages, or at least talk to us about finding some way to negotiate a settlement.
- Paulson doesn't address this subject - and he doesn't go too deeply into what it means to say, as Catholics do, that the saints "intercede" for "those who seek their help."
- We 'intercede' with God for the harm they have done us - not with the focus being on the harm we have suffered but on the condemnation from God they have earned by doing us harm.
- Wallace was campaigning on peace with the Soviets, and that night he defended the Communists by saying Czechoslovakia was having a rightist coup and the Soviets had no choice but to intercede.
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