1. 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?"
   - step in, interfere, interpose 
2. Be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events
   "This interludes intervenes between the two movements"; "Eight days intervened" 
3. Occur between other event or between certain points of time
   "the war intervened between the birth of her two children"

Derived forms: intervening, intervened, intervenes

See also: intervenor, intervention

Type of: come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, interact, lie, occur, pass, pass off, take place

Encyclopedia: Intervene

• contribution
• contributive
• contributor
• contributory
• contributory negligence
• contrite
• contritely
• contriteness
• contrition
• contrivance
• contrive
• contrived
• contriver
• control
• control account
• control board
• control center
• control centre
• control character
• control circuit
• control condition
• control experiment
• control freak
• control function
• control grid