Definition of intervene

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Intervene (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..

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Intervene :: Intervene (v. i.) To come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa..
Alternate :: Alternate (a.) Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second; as, the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc. ; read every alternate line..
Interstice :: Interstice (n.) That which intervenes between one thing and another; especially, a space between things closely set, or between the parts which compose a body; a narrow chink; a crack; a crevice; a hole; an interval; as, the interstices of a wall..
Intervene :: Intervene (n.) A coming between; intervention; meeting.
Intermediate :: Intermediate (v. i.) To come between; to intervene; to interpose.
Intervene :: Intervene (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..
Part :: Part (n.) Hence: To hold apart; to stand between; to intervene betwixt, as combatants..
Mask :: Mask (v. t.) To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of..
Intercede :: Intercede (v. i.) To pass between; to intervene.
Interposer :: Interposer (n.) One who, or that which, interposes or intervenes; an obstacle or interruption; a mediator or agent between parties..
Intervener :: Intervener (n.) One who intervenes; especially (Law), a person who assumes a part in a suit between others..
Intervene :: Intervene (v. t.) To come between.
Interventor :: Interventor (n.) One who intervenes; a mediator; especially (Eccles. Hist.), a person designated by a church to reconcile parties, and unite them in the choice of officers..
Stickle :: Stickle (v. t.) To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening; hence, to arbitrate..
Intervene :: Intervene (v. i.) To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel..
Intervene :: Intervene (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..
Intervened :: Intervened (imp. & p. p.) of Interven.
Mediate :: Mediate (a.) To be in the middle, or between two; to intervene..
Intercur :: Intercur (v. i.) To intervene; to come or occur in the meantime.
Bicuspid :: Bicuspid (n.) One of the two double-pointed teeth which intervene between the canines (cuspids) and the molars, on each side of each jaw. See Tooth, n..
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