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Verb: intervene `intu(r)'veen- 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 - Be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events
"This interludes intervenes between the two movements"; "Eight days intervened" - 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 |