Intervene - definition, pronunciation, transcription
verb
Eight days intervened
Extra examples
Twenty years intervened between their first and last meetings.
The prisoner asked me to intervene with the authorities on his behalf.
The military had to intervene to restore order.
We will leave on time unless some crisis intervenes.
The chairman felt that it was his place to intervene in the disagreement between two of his committee members.
Between the next two cantos intervenes the well known cradle song.
The police don't usually like to intervene in disputes between husbands and wives.
The army will have to intervene to prevent further fighting.
'Stop shouting, Emily,' John intervened.
He was just establishing his career when the war intervened.
In the six years that intervened I saw them once.
Why did the U.S. not intervene earlier in WW II?
This interludes intervenes between the two movements
Eight days intervened
...he got a biff in the noggin as his reward for trying to intervene in the fight...
Word forms
I/you/we/they: intervene
he/she/it: intervenes
present participle: intervening
past tense: intervened
past participle: intervened
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