2 meanings
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1 —as in:
intervened in the war
Definition
get involved; or come between- They do not like America to intervene in the Middle East.
intervene = get involved
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- We would have finished last week, but the weather intervened.
- They are opposed to Russian intervention in their country.
- Why did the U.S. not intervene earlier in WW II?
- Without intervention, the colony will die.Sue Monk Kidd -- The Secret Life of Bees
- I said I didn't want Shawn in prison but that some type of intervention was needed.Tara Westover -- Educated
- On and on he would have gone, if Athena had not intervened.Madeline Miller -- Circe
- 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
- It might have turned ugly had General Taheri not intervened.Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner
- So I didn't miss the irony of lying to a therapist (to protect Mom) lest I ignite another intervention by the county children's services.J.D. Vance -- Hillbilly Elegy
intervened = interfered
intervention = involvement
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
intervene = get involved
intervention = active involvement to bring about change
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
intervention = active involvement to bring about change
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
intervened = gotten involved
intervened = gotten involved (to help)
intervened = gotten involved (to change an outcome)
intervention = involvement
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
2 —as in:
in the intervening years
Definition
passage of time — especially between two events- Decades intervened before the story was written.
intervened = passed
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- I knew her as a child and then saw her again in college. She had grown into a beautiful woman during the intervening years.
- This phenomenon, in the various shapes which it assumed, indicated no external change, but so sudden and important a change in the spectator of the familiar scene, that the intervening space of a single day had operated on his consciousness like the lapse of years.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
intervening = passing
intervening = passing
Less commonly:
Much more rarely, intervene can mean:
in various senses, including:
- 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."
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