Dissuade vs Intervene - What's the difference?
dissuade | intervene |
To convince not to try or do.
Jane dissuaded Martha from committing suicide.
(ambitransitive) To come between, or to be between, persons or things.
* De Quincey
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.
To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel; get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action
(legal) 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.
As verbs the difference between dissuade and intervene
is that dissuade is while intervene is (ambitransitive) to come between, or to be between, persons or things.dissuade
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(dissuad)Antonyms
* persuadeDerived terms
* dissuasionintervene
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- The Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
- self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, etc., intervening the different estates
- (Abbott)
