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Intervene vs Meddling - What's the difference?

intervene | meddling |

As verbs the difference between intervene and meddling

is that intervene is (ambitransitive) to come between, or to be between, persons or things while meddling is .

As an adjective meddling is

that meddles.

As a noun meddling is

action of the verb meddle .

intervene

English

Verb

  • (ambitransitive) To come between, or to be between, persons or things.
    • The Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
  • * De Quincey
    • self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, etc., intervening the different estates
  • 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.
    • (Abbott)

    Related terms

    * intervention

    meddling

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • That meddles.

    • Synonyms

    * annoying

    Derived terms

    * meddlingly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Action of the verb meddle .
  • * 1835 , William Osburn, Doctrinal Errors of the Apostolical and Early Fathers (page 30)
    • It had been well, if these dishonest meddlings with existing books had stopped here.

    Verb

    (head)