Usually means: To come between for influence.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word intervene:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. intervene: Merriam-Webster
  2. intervene: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. intervene: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. intervene: Collins English Dictionary
  5. intervene: Vocabulary.com
  6. Intervene, intervene: Wordnik
  7. intervene: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. intervene: Wiktionary
  9. intervene: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. intervene: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. intervene: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. intervene: Dictionary.com
  13. intervene: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Intervene: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Intervene: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. intervene: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. intervene: Rhymezone
  18. intervene: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. intervene: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. intervene: FreeDictionary.org
  21. intervene: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. intervene: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. intervene: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. intervene: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. intervene: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. intervene: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. intervene: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. intervene: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. intervene: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. intervene: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. intervene: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See intervened as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To become involved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action.
verb:  (intransitive) To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events.
verb:  (intransitive) To occur or act as an obstacle or delay.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To say (something) in the middle of a conversation or discussion between other people, or to respond to a situation involving other people.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To come between, or to be between, persons or things.
verb:  (law) 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.

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