Word Meanings - INTERVENE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

hinder; inter between + venire to come; akin to E. come: cf. F. 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

Additional info about word: INTERVENE

hinder; inter between + venire to come; akin to E. come: cf. F. 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 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 one's interest in the subject matter. Abbott.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INTERVENE)

• Elapse
• Pass
• slip
• lapse
• glide away
• intervene
• Interpose
• Introduce
• insert
• interfere
• meddle
• intercede
• arbitrate
• mediate

Related words: (words related to INTERVENE)

• INSERT
  To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to insert a letter, word, or passage in a composition; to insert an advertisement in a newspaper. These
• INTERPOSER
  One who, or that which, interposes or intervenes; an obstacle or interruption; a mediator or agent between parties. Shak.
• INTERVENER
  One who intervenes; especially , a person who assumes a part in a suit between others.
• MEDDLER
  One who meddles; one who interferes or busies himself with things in which he has no concern; an officious person; a busybody.
• INTERCEDE
  1. To pass between; to intervene. He supposed that a vast period interceded between that origination and the age wherein he lived. Sir M. Hale. 2. To act between parties with a view to reconcile differences; to make intercession; to beg or plead
• INTRODUCEMENT
  Introduction.
• MEDDLESOME
  Given to meddling; apt to interpose in the affairs of others; officiously intrusive. -- Med"dle*some*ness, n.
• INSERTING
  1. A setting in. 2. Something inserted or set in, as lace, etc., in garments.
• INTERFERE
  To act reciprocally, so as to augment, diminish, or otherwise affect one another; -- said of waves, rays of light, heat, etc. See Interference, 2. (more info) between + OF. ferir to strike, F. férir, fr. L. ferire. 1. To come in collision; to
• ELAPSE
  To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time. Eight days elapsed; at length a pilgrim came. Hoole.
• LAPSED
  1. Having slipped downward, backward, or away; having lost position, privilege, etc., by neglect; -- restricted to figurative uses. Once more I will renew His lapsed powers, though forfeit. Milton. 2. Ineffectual, void, or forfeited; as, a lapsed
• INSERTED
  Situated upon, attached to, or growing out of, some part; -- said especially of the parts of the flower; as, the calyx, corolla, and stamens of many flowers are inserted upon the receptacle. Gray.
• INTERVENE
  hinder; inter between + venire to come; akin to E. come: cf. F. 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
• MEDIATENESS
  The state of being mediate.
• MEDIATE
  1. Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed; intervening; intermediate. Prior. 2. Acting by means, or by an intervening cause or instrument; not direct or immediate; acting or suffering through an intervening agent or condition. 3. Gained
• INTERCEDENT
  Passing between; mediating; pleading. -- In`ter*ced"ent*ly, adv.
• ARBITRATE
  or beholder of something, to make a decision, to give judgment, fr. 1. To hear and decide, as arbitrators; as, to choose to arbitrate a disputed case. 2. To decide, or determine generally. South. There shall your swords and lances arbitrate The
• GLIDEN
  p. p. of Glide. Chaucer.
• INTRODUCE
  1. To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to introduce a person into a drawing-room. 2. To put ; to insert; as, to introduce the finger, or a probe. 3. To lead to and make known by formal announcement or recommendation; hence, to cause
• INTERCEDENCE
  The act of interceding; intercession; intervention. Bp. Reynolds.
• INTERMEDDLE
  To meddle with the affairs of others; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to mix or meddle with. The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states. Bacon. Syn. -- To
• PROLAPSE
  The falling down of a part through the orifice with which it is naturally connected, especially of the uterus or the rectum. Dunglison.
• REINSERT
  To insert again.
• DELAPSE
  To pass down by inheritance; to lapse. Which Anne derived alone the right, before all other, Of the delapsed crown from Philip. Drayton.
• IMMEDIATE
  1. Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact. You are the most immediate to our throne. Shak. 2. Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant. "Assemble we immediate council." Shak.
• RELAPSER
  One who relapses. Bp. Hall.
• REMEDIATE
  Remedial. Shak.
• PRETERLAPSED
  Past; as, preterlapsed ages. Glanvill.