Synonyms of the word intervene


INTERVENEHAP - HAPPEN - INTERACT - INTERFERE - INTERPOSE - LIE - OCCUR - PASS

intervene

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To come between, or to be between, persons or things.
  • v. (intransitive) To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events.
  • v. (intransitive) To become involved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action.
  • v. (law) In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in…

hap

  • n. (archaic) That which happens; an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or…
  • v. (intransitive, literary) to happen; to befall; to chance.
  • v. (transitive, literary) To happen to.
  • n. (Britain, Scotland, Western Pennsylvania, dialect) A wrap, such as a quilt or a comforter. Also, a small…
  • v. (dialect) To wrap, clothe.
  • n. Any of the cichlid fishes of the tribe Haplochromini.

happen

  • v. To occur or take place.
  • v. To occur unexpectedly, by chance or with a low probability.
  • v. (followed by on or upon) To encounter by chance.
  • adv. (obsolete or dialect) maybe, perhaps.

interact

  • n. A short act or piece between others, as in a play; an interlude; hence, intermediate employment or time.
  • v. To act upon each other.

interfere

  • v. (intransitive) To get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance.
  • v. (intransitive, physics) (of waves) To be correlated with each other when overlapped or superposed.
  • v. (mostly of horses) To strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
  • v. (intransitive, followed by "with") To sexually molest, especially of a child.

interpose

  • v. (transitive) To insert something (or oneself) between other things.
  • v. (transitive) To interrupt a conversation by introducing a different subject or making a comment.
  • v. (intransitive) To be inserted between parts or things; to come between.
  • v. (intransitive) To intervene in a dispute, or in a conversation.

lie

  • v. (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
  • v. (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
  • v. To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
  • v. Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
  • v. (archaic) To lodge; to sleep.
  • v. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
  • v. (law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
  • n. (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
  • n. (medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.
  • v. (intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
  • v. (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.
  • n. An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
  • n. A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true; a half-truth.
  • n. Anything that misleads or disappoints.

occur

  • v. To happen or take place.
  • v. To present or offer (itself).
  • v. (impersonal) To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest (itself).
  • v. (sciences) To be present or found.

pass

  • v. (heading) Physical movement.
  • v. (heading) To change in state or status, to advance.
  • v. (heading) To move through time.
  • v. (heading) To be accepted.
  • v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
  • v. (heading) To do or be better.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
  • n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise…
  • n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
  • n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
  • n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
  • n. An attempt.
  • n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
  • n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
  • n. A sexual advance.
  • n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
  • n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into…
  • n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
  • n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit…
  • n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
  • n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
  • n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
  • n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
  • n. (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the…
  • n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
  • n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
  • n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

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