intervene : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: intervene	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
intervene 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?" Synonym(s): intervene, 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"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Intervene \In`ter*vene"\, v. t. To come between. [R.] Self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, etc., intervening the different estates. --De Quincey.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Intervene \In`ter*vene"\, n. A coming between; intervention; meeting. [Obs.] --Sir H. Wotton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Intervene \In`tervene"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Intervened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Intervening}.] [L. intervenire, interventum, to intervene, to hinder; inter between + venire to come; akin to E. come: cf. F. intervenir. See {Come}.] 1. To come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa. 2. 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. To interpose; as, to intervene* to settle a quarrel. 4. 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.