Word.ws English Dictionary

interveneth

interveneth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of intervene.

Meaning of intervene

Verb

intervene (third-person singular simple present intervenes, present participle intervening, simple past and past participle intervened)

  1. (intransitive) To become involved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action.
    • The police had to be called to intervene in the fight.
    Synonyms:
    interfere, step in
  2. (intransitive) To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events.
    • An instant intervened between the flash and the report.
    Synonyms:
    elapse
  3. (intransitive) To occur or act as an obstacle or delay.
    • Nothing intervened to prevent the undertaking.
  4. (ambitransitive) To say (something) in the middle of a conversation or discussion between other people, or to respond to a situation involving other people.
    • Young Scarfe stared, astounded. “You haven’t met before,” Mrs. Gould intervened. “Mr. Decoud—Mr. Scarfe.”1904, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, Part 2, Chapter 4
    Synonyms:
    interrupt
  5. (ambitransitive) To come between, or to be between, persons or things.
    • The Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
  6. 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.
    • an application for leave (i.e. permission) to intervene

Origin of interveneth

intervene + -eth

Questions about interveneth

What is interveneth the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Interveneth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of intervene.

Words near interveneth in the dictionary

  1. intervenees
  2. intervener
  3. interveners
  4. intervenes
  5. intervenest
  6. interveneth
  7. intervenience
  8. interveniences
  9. interveniencies
  10. interveniency
  11. intervenient

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: interveneth (page history and authors); intervene (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “interveneth.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/interveneth. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.