Intervene vs Intervened - What's the difference?
intervene | intervened |
(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.
(intervene)
(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 intervene and intervened
is that intervene is (ambitransitive) to come between, or to be between, persons or things while intervened is (intervene).intervene
English
Verb
- The Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
- self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, etc., intervening the different estates
- (Abbott)
intervened
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(head)Anagrams
*intervene
English
Verb
- The Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
- self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, etc., intervening the different estates
- (Abbott)