Intervention vs Meddle - What's the difference?
intervention | meddle |
The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
* {{quote-news
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(US, legal) A legal motion through which a person or entity who has not been named as a party to a case seeks to have the court order that they be made a party.
An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.
(obsolete) To mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend.
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
*:he cut a locke of all their heare, / Which medling with their bloud and earth, he threw / Into the graue.
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*:But after god came to Adam and bad hym knowe his wyf flesshly as nature requyred / Soo lay Adam with his wyf vnder the same tree / and anone the tree whiche was whyte and ful grene as ony grasse and alle that came oute of hit / and in the same tyme that they medled to gyders there was Abel begoten / thus was the tree longe of grene colour
*, II.5.1.v:
*:Take a ram's head that never meddled with an ewe, cut off at a blow, and the horns only taken away, boil it well, skin and wool together.
(senseid)To interfere (in) or (with); to concern oneself with unduly.
*Bible, 2 Kings xiv.10:
*:Why shouldst thou meddle to thy hurt?
*John Locke
*:The civil lawyershave meddled in a matter that belongs not to them.
(obsolete) To interest or engage oneself; to have to do (with), in a good sense.
*Tyndale
*:Study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business.
:(Barrow)
As a noun intervention
is intervention (act of intervening).As a verb meddle is
(obsolete) to mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend.intervention
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(en noun)citation, page= , passage=Fernando Torres was recalled in place of the suspended Didier Drogba and he was only denied a goal in the opening seconds by Laurent Koscielny's intervention - a moment that set the tone for game filled with attacking quality and littered with errors.}}
