Word Direct Answers

What does "intervene" mean?

Intervene: 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.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel.
  2. 3.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. Abbott.
  3. 4.To come between. [R.] Self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, etc., intervening the different estates. De Quincey.
  4. 5.A coming between; intervention; meeting. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

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