Definition:
- (v. i.) To come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
- (v. i.) 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.
- (v. i.) To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel.
- (v. i.) 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.
- (v. t.) To come between.
- (n.) A coming between; intervention; meeting.
Compare intervene with other words:
intervene vs. intervenue
intervene vs. intervent
intercept vs. intervene
intervene vs. operate
intervene vs. occur
intervene vs. intervener
intervene vs. meddle
famish vs. intervene
disturb vs. intervene
intervene vs. mobile
interact vs. intervene
interrupt vs. intervene
intervene vs. intervenient
interject vs. intervene
interpose vs. intervene
intercede vs. intervene
contravene vs. intervene
intervene vs. mediate
intervene vs. intervention
interfere vs. intervene