INTERVENES - Definition & Meaning for Kids

Simple definitions and word synonyms for kids.

Part of speech: Verb

get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force

Example: Why did the U.S. not intervene earlier in WW II?

Part of speech: Verb

be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events

Example: This interludes intervenes between the two movements; Eight days intervened

Part of speech: Verb

occur between other event or between certain points of time

Example: the war intervened between the birth of her two children