- intervening - occurring or falling between events or points in time; "so much had happened during the intervening years"
Antonym: late (indirect, via early, middle)
Antonym: early (indirect, via middle, late)
- intervening - standing between or separating two objects or areas; "Paris--where the same city lies on both sides of an intervening river"; "after reaching the top of the hill he looked across an intervening meadow to another line of hills"
Antonym: conjunctive (indirect, via disjunctive)
- intervene, step in, interfere, interpose - get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force; "Why did the U.S. not intervene earlier in WW II?"
--1 is one way to interact
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun intervenor1, noun intervention1
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
- intervene - be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events; "This interludes intervenes between the two movements"; "Eight days intervened"
--2 is one way to lie
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
- intervene - occur between other event or between certain points of time; "the war intervened between the birth of her two children"
--3 is one way to happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
- intervene - occur between other event or between certain points of time; "the war intervened between the birth of her two children"