Found 3 items, similar to intervene.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: intervene
campur tangan, campur-tangan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: intervene
intervene
v 1: get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through
force or threat of force;
“Why did the U.S. not
intervene earlier in WW II?” [syn:
step in,
interfere,
interpose]
2: be placed or located between other things or extend between
spaces and events;
“This interludes intervenes between the
two movements”;
“Eight days intervened”
3: occur between other event or between certain points of time;
“the war intervened between the birth of her two children”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Intervene
Intervene
\In`ter*vene"\, v. t.
To come between. [R.]
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Self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, etc., intervening
the different estates. --De Quincey.
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Intervene
\In`ter*vene"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Intervened; p.
pr. & vb. n.
Intervening.] [L. intervenire, interventum, to
intervene, to hinder; inter between + venire to come; akin to
E. come: cf. F. intervenir. See
Come.]
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1. To come between, or to be between, persons or things; --
followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes
between Europe and Africa.
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2. 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.
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3. To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel.
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4. 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.
--Abbott.
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Intervene
\In`ter*vene"\, n.
A coming between; intervention; meeting. [Obs.] --Sir H.
Wotton.
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