intervene

intervene has 9 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• 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.
• v.. occur between other event or between certain points of time; "the war intervened between the birth of her two children"
• v.. 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?"
• v.. be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events; "This interludes intervenes between the two movements"; "Eight days intervened"