intervene

1. v. i. To come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa. Source: opted

2. 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. Source: opted

3. v. i. To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel. Source: opted

4. 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. Source: opted

5. v. t. To come between. Source: opted

6. n. A coming between; intervention; meeting. Source: opted

7. v. get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force Source: wordnet

8. v. be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events Source: wordnet

9. v. occur between other event or between certain points of time Source: wordnet

10. 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. To come between. [R.] Self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, etc., intervening the different estates. De Quincey. A coming between; intervention; meeting. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton. Source: webster

11. To come between. [R.]Self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, etc., intervening the differentestates. De Quincey. Source: adambom

12. v:100 v. get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force v. be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events v. occur between other event or between certain points of time Source: ecdict

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