intervening Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. verb get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force
   step in; intervene; interpose; interfere.
   
   • Why did the U.S. not intervene earlier in WW II?
2. verb be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events
   intervene.
   
   • This interludes intervenes between the two movements
   • Eight days intervened
3. verb occur between other event or between certain points of time
   intervene.
   
   • the war intervened between the birth of her two children
4. adjective satellite occurring or falling between events or points in time
   
   • so much had happened during the intervening years

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