- Act as peacemaker, mediate
- Meddle
- Mediate
- Step in
- To pass between; to intervene.
- To act between parties with a view to reconcile
differences; to make intercession; to beg or plead in behalf of
another; to mediate; -- usually followed by with and for; as, I will
intercede with him for you.
- To be, to come, or to pass, between; to separate.
- Meddle
- Step in
- To come in collision; to be in opposition; to clash;
as, interfering claims, or commands.
- To enter into, or take a part in, the concerns of
others; to intermeddle; to interpose.
- To strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle
in using the legs; -- sometimes said of a human being, but usually of a
horse; as, the horse interferes.
- To act reciprocally, so as to augment, diminish, or
otherwise affect one another; -- said of waves, rays of light, heat,
etc. See Interference, 2.
- To cover the same ground; to claim the same
invention.
- Step in
- Step in when internee gets upset around five
- To come between, or to be between, persons or things;
-- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe
and Africa.
- To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or
events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report;
nothing intervened ( i. e., between the intention and the execution) to
prevent the undertaking.
- To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel.
- In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to
put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.
- To come between.