How to spell intervene

hear itin·ter·vene/,ɪntər'vin/verbPrefixes and work

What it means: To get involved in a difficult situation to help.

In a sentence: The teacher decided to intervene when the kids started arguing.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as intervine or interveen.

Same family: intervention, intervening, intervened, interfere, mediate. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Intervene comes from Latin 'intervenire,' meaning 'to come between' (inter = between, venire = to come). It originally described literally coming between two things, and later took on the modern sense of stepping into a situation to change what is happening.

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