Dictionary Entry
intervene
intervene is a 9-letter English word with 9 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
- 2intransitive verb
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.
- 3intransitive verb
To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel.
- 4intransitive verb
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.
- 5transitive verb
To come between.
- 6noun
A coming between; intervention; meeting.
- 7verb
occur between other event or between certain points of time
"the war intervened between the birth of her two children"
- 8verb
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?"
- 9verb
be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events
"This interludes intervenes between the two movements"
"Eight days intervened"
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