Associations to the word «Intervene»

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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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.