Associations to the word «Intervene»
Noun
- Behalf
- Bystander
- Peacekeeping
- Intervention
- Dispute
- Ottomans
- Bloodshed
- Space
- Crise
- Ceasefire
- Pretext
- Zeus
- Mediator
- Genocide
- Soviets
- Variable
- Obstacle
- Athena
- Mediation
- Conflict
- Sigismund
- Deportation
- Resolve
- Brawl
- Tsar
- Affair
- Atrocity
- Willingness
- Protester
- Confrontation
- Nato
- Consonant
- Powers
- Negligence
- Quarrel
- Habsburg
- Hades
- Neutrality
- Fate
- Carthage
- Armistice
- Cuban
- Insurrection
- Kosovo
- Syria
- Discord
- Crisis
- Richelieu
- Period
- Nicaragua
- Truman
- Eisenhower
- Urging
- Rwanda
- Save
- Roosevelt
- Demonstrator
- Suez
- Aggression
- Unrest
- Refuse
Verb
Wiktionary
INTERVENE, verb. (ambitransitive) To come between, or to be between, persons or things.
INTERVENE, verb. (intransitive) 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.
INTERVENE, verb. (intransitive) To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel; get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action
INTERVENE, verb. (legal) In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.
Dictionary definition
INTERVENE, verb. Get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force; "Why did the U.S. not intervene earlier in WW II?".
INTERVENE, verb. Be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events; "This interludes intervenes between the two movements"; "Eight days intervened".
INTERVENE, verb. Occur between other event or between certain points of time; "the war intervened between the birth of her two children".
Wise words
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