1 [V] ~ (in sth) to become involved in a situation in order to improve or help it:
The President intervened personally in the crisis. * She might have been killed if the neighbours hadn't intervened.
2 to interrupt sb when they are speaking in order to say sth:
[Vspeech] 'But,' she intervened, 'what about the others?' [also V]
3 [V] to happen in a way that delays sth or prevents it from happening:
They were planning to get married and then the war intervened.
4 [V] (formal) to exist between two events or places:
I saw nothing of her during the years that intervened.
intervention noun [U,C] ~ (in sth):
calls for government intervention to save the steel industry * armed / military intervention * People resented his repeated interventions in the debate.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for intervene is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is intervene a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, intervene is tagged as verb.
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