intervened
- 1Simple past and past participle of intervene.
Police intervened to break up the crowd before it grew unruly.
The central bank had intervened in currency markets several times that year.
Note
One spelling does double duty: the simple past (police intervened) and, after have, the perfect (the bank had intervened). Because the verb is nearly always intransitive, a passive such as was intervened is not idiomatic. Instead, the action is framed with in plus an object or to plus a verb: intervened in currency markets, intervened to break up the crowd. Lawyers use it of an outsider who intervened in a suit to defend an interest.
intervened is a form of intervene
intervene, verb: To get involved in a situation with the aim of changing its course or keeping something from being done. Full entry
- Forms
- interveneintervenes he/she/itintervening -ing formintervened past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- intervene → intervened: add -d
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