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Verb intervene has 3 senses
- intervene, step in, interfere, interpose - get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force; "Why did the U.S. not intervene earlier in WW II?"
--1 is one way to interact
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
- intervene - be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events; "This interludes intervenes between the two movements"; "Eight days intervened"
--2 is one way to lie
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
- intervene - occur between other event or between certain points of time; "the war intervened between the birth of her two children"
--3 is one way to happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
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