Definition of "intervened" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of intervene. (verb)

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• "Incidentally, this piece is later than usual because heavy politics intervened from the beginning of the week on and this show airs late on Sunday night."
• "Washington's Chasity Melvin intervened to keep the scene from getting uglier."
• "Then fortune again intervened for they obtained their results in the midst of a great war when ordinary economics are in abeyance and large scale production could go ahead as it would never have done in times of peace."