Definition of intervene
- v. i. - To come between, or to be between, persons or things;
-- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe
and Africa.
- 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.
- v. i. - To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel.
- 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.
- v. t. - To come between.
- n. - A coming between; intervention; meeting.