2 meanings
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1 —as in:
intervened in the war
Definition
get involved — typically to help in a difficult situation- They do not like America to intervene in the Middle East.
intervene = get involved
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- They are opposed to Russian intervention in their country.
- Why did the U.S. not intervene earlier in WW II?
- We would have finished last week, but the weather intervened.
- I'd admit that I didn't know that much about fashion, but Marlee and I both agreed that someone should have intervened on her behalf.Kiera Cass -- The Selection
- The words of these songs were composed without any human intervention whatever on an instrument known as a versificator.George Orwell -- 1984
- But this epiphany occurred only after the intervention of time and misfortune, when my fathers self-satisfied existence had begun to crumble beneath him.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- "Have some more," she insists, until Father intervenes and upholds my right to refuse a dish I don't like.Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
- I hastily intervene and give him a cigarette.Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Ordinarily he should have been a magnet for me, the center of all the excitement and influences in the class. Ordinarily this would have been so—if the summer, the gypsy days, had not intervened.John Knowles -- A Separate Peace
intervention = involvement — typically without welcome
intervened = gotten involved (to help)
intervention = involvement
intervention = involvement
intervenes = gets involved (to help)
intervene = get involved (to assist in a difficult situation)
intervened = come (gotten involved)
2 —as in:
in the intervening years
Definition
passage of time — especially between two events- Decades intervened before the story was written.
intervened = passed
- I knew her as a child and then saw her again in college. She had grown into a beautiful woman during the intervening years.
intervening = passing
Less commonly:
Much more rarely, intervene can mean: {definitionDetail}
in various senses, including:
{/definitionDetail}- to verbally interrupt -- as in "Not now!' she intervened."
- to be physically between -- as in: "You can't walk from one hill to the other because an impassable river intervenes."