(~s, intervening, ~d)
1.
If you ~ in a situation, you become involved in it and try to change it.
The situation calmed down when police ~d...
The Government is doing nothing to ~ in the crisis.
VERB: V, V in n
2.
If you ~, you interrupt a conversation in order to add something to it.
Hattie ~d and told me to stop it...
‘I’ve told you he’s not here,’ Irena ~d.
VERB: V, V with quote
3.
If an event ~s, it happens suddenly in a way that stops, delays, or prevents something from happening.
The South African mailboat arrived on Friday mornings unless bad weather ~d...
VERB: V