Intervene vs Intermeddle - What's the difference?
intervene | intermeddle | Related terms |
(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.
(obsolete) To mix, mingle together.
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*:Ryghte soo entryd he in to the chamber and cam toward the table of syluer / and whanne he came nyghe he felte a brethe that hym thoughte hit was entremedled with fyre whiche smote hym so sore in the vysage that hym thoughte it brente vysage / and there with he felle to the erthe and had no power to aryse
(obsolete, reflexive) To get mixed up ((with)).
*, II.29:
*:Amongst our other disputation, that of Fatum , hath much entermedled it selfe.
To butt in, to interfere (in) or (with).
*Francis Bacon
*:The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states.
*1749 , (Henry Fielding), , Book I, Ch.2:
Intervene is a related term of intermeddle.
As verbs the difference between intervene and intermeddle
is that intervene is (ambitransitive) to come between, or to be between, persons or things while intermeddle is (obsolete|transitive) to mix, mingle together.intervene
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Verb
- The Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
- self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, etc., intervening the different estates
- (Abbott)
intermeddle
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(intermeddl)- I must desire all those critics to mind their own business, and not to intermeddle with affairs or works which no ways concern them; for till they produce the authority by which they are constituted judges, I shall not plead to their jurisdiction.
