meaning of intervene
1. To come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
2. To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened ( i. e. , between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking.
3. To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel.
4. In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of ones interest in the subject matter.
5. To come between.
6. A coming between; intervention; meeting.
7. occur between other event or between certain points of time; "the war intervened between the birth of her two
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Related Words
intervene | intervened | intervener |
