intervenes
- 1Third-person singular simple present of intervene.
The government intervenes in the market whenever prices climb too sharply.
A referee intervenes the moment a tackle turns dangerous.
Note
The -s form carries every use of the verb, and most of them take no object. Something intervenes in a dispute, a week intervenes between two events, an obstacle simply intervenes. Interjecting a remark is the clearest exception, since what is said can be its object ("'Not yet,' she intervenes"). In law, someone who was not made a party intervenes in a suit to defend their own interest.
intervenes 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 → intervenes: add -s
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