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Intervents vs Intervenes - What's the difference?

intervents | intervenes |

As verbs the difference between intervents and intervenes

is that intervents is (intervent) while intervenes is (intervene).

intervents

English

Verb

(head)
  • (intervent)

  • intervent

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To thwart; to obstruct.
  • (Chapman)
    (Webster 1913)

    intervenes

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (intervene)

  • 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)