Intervened vs Intervenes - What's the difference?
intervened | intervenes |
(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 intervened and intervenes
is that intervened is past tense of intervene while intervenes is third-person singular of intervene.intervened
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*intervene
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- The Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
- self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, etc., intervening the different estates
- (Abbott)
