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

1. intransitive verb. To come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
2. intransitive 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.
3. intransitive verb. To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel.
4. intransitive 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.
5. transitive verb. To come between.
6. noun. A coming between; intervention; meeting.
7. verb. occur between other event or between certain points of time

   "the war intervened between the birth of her two children"

8. verb. 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?"

   Synonyms: interfere, interpose

9. verb. be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events

   "This interludes intervenes between the two movements"

   "Eight days intervened"

Synonyms

interfere, interpose

Common word forms

intervened, intervener, intervenes, intervening

Words from these letters

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