intervene
/ˌɪntɚˈvin/ verb C1- To become involved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action. · The police had to be called to intervene in the fight.
- To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events. · An instant intervened between the flash and the report.
- To occur or act as an obstacle or delay. · Nothing intervened to prevent the undertaking.· The weather intervened before the contest could get under way.
- To say (something) in the middle of a conversation or discussion between other people, or to respond to a situation involving other people.
- To come between, or to be between, persons or things. · The Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
- 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. · an application for leave (i.e. permission) to intervene
He/she/it intervenes · Past intervened · Past participle intervened · -ing form intervening
Verb forms
- Base form
- intervene
- He/she/it
- intervenes
- Past
- intervened
- Past participle
- intervened
- -ing form
- intervening
From the library
An intervening elevation of land hid the light.
She counted the days that must intervene before their invitation could be sent--hopeless of seeing him before.
There he intervened, and then it was, Colonel Walter, that to treason you added the more terrible crime of murder.”
Something intervened to prevent my going.”
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