INTERVENE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Intervene

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ˌɪntərvˈin/ /ˌɪnərvˈin/ Listen

verb

Intervene v. t. To come between. (R.) "Self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, etc., intervening the different estates."

Intervene v. i. (past & past part. intervened; pres. part. intervening)

To come between, or to be between, persons or things; followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.

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.

To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel.

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.

noun

Intervene n. A coming between; intervention; meeting. (Obs.)

See images of 'Intervene'

Etymology of 'Intervene'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Intervene" Quotes from Famous Books

... doing so, and in keeping this business strictly private, till you hear farther from me, since you are not ignorant that even at this advanced period, an objection on the part of Lord Downshire, or many other accidents, may intervene; in which case, I should little wish my disappointment to ...

— Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) • Various

... I feel that it would be wrong for us to allow Mr. Murkison to go alone to meet those Chicago green goods men. There is but one way it can end. Don't you think we would both feel better if we was to intervene in some way and prevent the doing of ...

— The Gentle Grafter • O. Henry

... not wish the chance. Because she wished Austria to go on with the subjugation of Servia. Because she wished Russia to be forced to go on with her measures to intervene for the rescue of Servia from extinction. Because she wished herself to go on with her design of putting her own incomparable military machine at work to force her will on Europe. Because she wished to have a ...

— Fighting For Peace • Henry Van Dyke

... rising power of Japan commanding the whole of the coast-line of Korea. Accordingly in the interval between the signature and the ratification of the treaty, invitations were addressed by Russia to the great powers to intervene with a view to its modification on the ground of the disturbance of the balance of power, and the menace to China which the occupation of Port Arthur by the Japanese would involve. France and Germany accepted the invitation, Great Britain ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 - "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" • Various

... deny the postulate that God has made, by an irreversible decree, or any inherent qualities, one portion of the human race superior to another. No matter how many breeds are amalgamated—no matter how many shades of color intervene between tribes or nations give them the same chances to improve, and a fair start at the same time, and the result will be equally brilliant, ...

— William Lloyd Garrison - The Abolitionist • Archibald H. Grimke

More quotes...