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intervene
/ˌɪntɚˈvin/
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What does intervene mean?
verb
- To become involved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action.
- To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events.
- To occur or act as an obstacle or delay.
More meanings (3)
verb
- To say (something) in the middle of a conversation or discussion between other people, or to respond to a situation involving other people.
- To come between, or to be between, persons or things.
- 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.
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IPA pronunciation
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He was highly intelligent, and had had the sagacity to foresee that Europe would intervene authoritatively in the affairs of Syria.
To escape from captivity, or confinement, by means of a ladder, you will be successful, though many perilous paths may intervene.
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They appealed to their trades and to the central body of unions to intervene in his behalf with the city officials.
Orfila, afterwards to intervene in the much more universally notorious case of Mme Lafarge, stuck to his opinion of death by arsenic.
It will die out, beyond a doubt, unless education intervene, giving it the fuel of example, fanning it with the breath of experience.