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intervene

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Etymology

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Back-formation fromintervention, and/or fromLatininterveniō(“come between”,verb).

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Verb

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intervene (third-person singular simple presentintervenes,present participleintervening,simple past and past participleintervened)

  1. (intransitive) To becomeinvolved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action. [within]
    Synonyms:interfere,step in
    The police had to be called tointervene in the fight.
  2. (intransitive) To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events.
    An instantintervened between the flash and the report.
    I hadn't seen him since we were in school, and theintervening years had not been kind to him.
    • 1689 December (indicated as1690), [John Locke], “Chapter 16”, inTwo Treatises of Government: […], London: […] Awnsham Churchill, […],→OCLC, book II,page417:
      […] it is plain, that shaking off a Power, which Force, and not Right, hath set over any one, though it hath the Name of Rebellion; yet is no Offence before God, but that which he allows and countenances, though even Promises and Covenants, when obtain’d by force, haveintervened.
    • 1794,Ann Radcliffe, chapter 4, inThe Mysteries of Udolpho‎[2], volume 1, London: G.G. and J. Robinson, page93:
      Even sad vicissitude amus’d his soul;
      And if a sigh would sometimesintervene,
      And down his cheek a tear of pity roll,
      A sigh, a tear, so sweet, he wish’d not to controul.
    • 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 11, inPride and Prejudice: […], volume(please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] forT[homas] Egerton, […],→OCLC:
      She counted the days that mustintervene before their invitation could be sent; hopeless of seeing him before.
    • 1963,John le Carré, chapter 17, inThe Spy Who Came In From the Cold‎[3], New York: Coward-McCann, published1964, page176:
      […] he was prepared to allow long silences tointervene rather than exchange pointless words.
  3. (intransitive) Tooccur oract as anobstacle ordelay.
    Nothingintervened to prevent the undertaking.
    • 1667,John Milton, “Book VIII”, inParadise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […];[a]nd by Robert Boulter […];[a]nd Matthias Walker, […],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […],1873,→OCLC, lines220-224:
      For while so near each other thus all day
      Our task we choose, what wonder if so near
      Looksintervene and smiles, or object new
      Casual discourse draw on, whichintermits
      Our dayes work brought to little,
    • 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe],The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […],→OCLC,page184:
      I reproach’d my self with my Easiness, that would not sow any more Corn one Year than would just serve me till the next Season, as if no Accident couldintervene to prevent my enjoying the Crop that was upon the Ground;
    • 1881–1882,Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 23, inTreasure Island, London; Paris:Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883,→OCLC:
      […] a numbness, an occasional stupor, fell upon my mind even in the midst of my terrors, until sleep at lastintervened, and in my sea-tossed coracle I lay and dreamed of home[…]
    • 1906 May–October,Jack London, chapterIII, inWhite Fang, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company; London:Macmillan & Co., published October 1906,→OCLC, part 1 (The Wild):
      He kept the fire brightly blazing, for he knew that it aloneintervened between the flesh of his body and their hungry fangs.
    • 1918,Willa Cather,My Ántonia‎[4], Book 5, Chapter 1:
      I told Ántonia I would come back, but lifeintervened, and it was twenty years before I kept my promise.
  4. (ambitransitive) Tosay (something) in the middle of aconversation ordiscussion between other people, or torespond to a situation involving other people.
    Synonym:interrupt
    • 1904,Joseph Conrad,Nostromo‎[5], Part 2, Chapter 4:
      Young Scarfe stared, astounded. “You haven’t met before,” Mrs. Gouldintervened. “Mr. Decoud—Mr. Scarfe.”
    • 1970,J. G. Farrell,Troubles‎[6], New York: Knopf, published1971,Part 2, p. 409:
      “That sounds suspiciously like bigotry to me,”intervened Maitland, sweetening his impertinence with a dimpled smile.
    • 2014,Rachel Kushner, chapter 10, inThe Flamethrowers, New York: Scribner,page154:
      They all talked nonstop. That is, if you didn’tintervene. They were accustomed to being interrupted.
  5. (ambitransitive) To come between, or to be between, persons or things.
    The Mediterraneanintervenes between Europe and Africa.
    • 1668,Joseph Glanvill,Plus Ultra, or, The Progress and Advancement of Knowledge since the Days of Aristotle, London: James Collins, Chapter 11, p. 79,[7]
      How defective the Art of Navigation was in elder Times, when they Sailed by the observation of the Stars, is easie to be imagin’d: For in dark weather, when their Pleiades, Helice, and Cynosura were hidden from them by theintervening Clouds, the Mariner was at a loss for his Guide, and exposed to the casual conduct of the Winds and Tides.
    • 1776,Adam Smith,An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations‎[8], London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, Volume 2, Book 5, Chapter 2, Part 2, Article 4, p. 522:
      If the profits of the merchant importer or merchant manufacturer were taxed, equality seemed to require that those of all the middle buyers, whointervened between either of them and the consumer, should likewise be taxed.
    • 1839 September,Thomas De Quincey, “Sketches of Life and Manners; from the Autobiography of an English Opium-Eater: Recollections ofGrasmere”, inTait’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume 6, page569:
      […] small fields and miniature meadows, separated[…] by wild self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, holly, mountain ash, and hazel, that meander through the valley,intervening the different estates with natural sylvan marches[…]
    • 1912,Zane Grey, chapter 22, inRiders of the Purple Sage‎[9]:
      Venters calculated that a mile or more stillintervened between them and the riders.
    • 1979,William Styron, chapter 3, inSophie’s Choice‎[10], New York: Bantam, published1980, page82:
      I had begun to eye the door and theintervening furniture, and quickly schemed out the best way of immediate exit.
  6. (law) 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.[1]
    an application for leave (i.e. permission) tointervene

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Translations

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to become involved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action
to occur, to come between, points of time, or events
to occur or act as an obstacle or delay
to say (something) in the middle of a conversation or discussion between other people, or to respond to a situation involving other people
to come between, or to be between, persons or things
law: 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
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References

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  1. ^Benjamin Vaughan Abbott,Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence, Boston: Little, Brown, 1879, Volume 1, p. 641,[1]
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