meaning of intervene2

1. To come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
2.
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.
3.
To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel.
4.
In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of ones interest in the subject matter.
5.
To come between.
6.
A coming between; intervention; meeting.
7.
occur between other event or between certain points of time; "the war intervened between the birth of her two ">children"


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