Definition of intervention in English:

intervention

noun ɪntəˈvɛnʃ(ə)nˌɪn(t)ərˈvɛn(t)ʃ(ə)n

mass noun

1The action or process of intervening.
a high degree of state intervention in the economy
count noun repeated interventions by central banks
Example sentencesExamples
- We can make our observations and interventions on behalf of the emerging poem or story.
- However, these incentives are often distorted by interventions in the market.
- Studies have shown that the tree would be safe with only minor interventions.
- Behind the parade of diets and workout regimes there have been more direct interventions.
- Ecosystems are delicate and complex, easily disrupted by clumsy interventions.
- Second the costs of interventions, both explicit and implicit, did not become excessive.
- Research shows it's less helpful in normal labours and can lead to unnecessary interventions.
- They eagerly, even desperately, seek to create or receive such interventions.
- As economic interventions go it must surely rank as one of the biggest failures in history.
- Not only had he given his all going forward, he had helped out at the back with telling interventions.
- Also the possibilities of realist strategies as radical interventions should be broached.
- The result is one of the simplest artistic interventions I have ever seen and one of the most unforgettable.
- They were frustratingly denied by late deflections or timely interventions.
- Many have raised several matters that Ann's kindly interventions have resolved.
- What we have here then is an extraordinary range of fairly informed interventions.
- Most lyrical of all his interventions there is the restaurant on the edge of the vineyards.
1. 1.1 Interference by a state in another's affairs.
  the government was reported to be considering military intervention
  Example sentencesExamples
  I think we have to be concerned that we could have too much overkill, in terms of military intervention.
  This military intervention was sharply opposed from the beginning by the Polish people.
  It was precisely the product of 100 years of brutal intervention by colonial and imperialist forces.
  European countries are also strengthening their military intervention in West Africa.
  A call went out for immediate protests this weekend against the danger of U.S. military intervention.
  So the other powers have been mostly happy to go along with US military intervention.
  Underlying this was a fear of French intervention in Irish affairs.
  We have to build a movement that demands an end to the war and an end to US imperialist intervention in the region.
  Such military intervention served to fuel these proxy wars rather than stop them.
  When in history has liberation ever resulted as a happy byproduct of imperialist intervention?
  While McDonald spoke of a limited operation, military intervention has a logic of its own.
  It is important to draw attention to this because it was a fully armed intervention under the Democrats.
  These alliances led to increasing intervention in the affairs of such states and to wars fought on their behalf.
  Firstly comes direct intervention in the affairs of another country.
  Globalisation accelerates both the economic and military impact of imperialist intervention.
  Mass protests in the West will strengthen all those in the Middle East who want to resist imperialist intervention.
  On my campus, there have been debates about whether any military intervention can be defended.
  There is growing global resentment concerning Americas policy of intervention in global affairs.
  Does the goal of defending or developing democracy justify military intervention and occupation of a country?
  State intervention is considered quite acceptable in these circumstances.
  Synonyms
  involvement, intercession, interceding, interposing, interposition
  mediation, mediatorship, arbitration, conciliation, peacemaking
  interference, intrusion, meddling
  rare arbitrament
2. 1.2 Action taken to improve a medical disorder.
  two patients were referred for surgical intervention
  Example sentencesExamples
  Could it be our interventions hinder the body's strategies to heal itself?
  Isn't this a natural event best managed without medical intervention?
  This condition needs medical intervention both in the form of rapid diagnosis and treatment.
  Many interventions can be delivered through day surgery rather than lengthy hospital stays.
  Box 1 shows the main interventions for urinary tract infections and sore throat.
  Surgical intervention is required at the earliest sign of an abscess.
  Both treated and control groups received the same level of medical intervention.
  More and more problems are seen as amenable to medical intervention.
  Some of these artists have drawn on their own experience of the effects of illness and medical intervention on their bodies.
  The data will be analysed for possible trends and ways to improve and target medical intervention.
  Are happiness and enhanced self image the appropriate outcomes of medical intervention?
  Parents want autism to be diagnosed as early as possible, and early intervention may improve long term outcomes.
  Now is the time for pharmacological intervention, done under medical supervision.
  Surgical intervention or, less commonly, thrombolytic therapy is indicated.
  The internet is a feasible and powerful tool in delivering community based health interventions.
  At the moment, one in three births involves complications requiring medical intervention.
  One child exhibited odd behaviour and one mild respiratory depression requiring no medical intervention.
  There is insufficient evidence as to whether this intervention improves cognitive performance.
  Lack of medical intervention can lead to disability, pain, and reduced functioning.
  This suggests that the intervention improved clinical selection of cases for sputum sampling.
3. 1.3count noun An occasion on which a person with an addiction or other behavioural problem is confronted by a group of friends or family members in an attempt to persuade them to address the issue.
  as her health worsened, her daughters considered staging an intervention
  Example sentencesExamples
  He came clean about his addiction for the first time after his roommates staged an intervention.
  An intervention, two stints in the Betty Ford clinic and a long retreat in Oregon helped her to clean out for good.
  The only people bold enough to conduct an intervention are those who consider themselves very close to you.
  If all else fails, you may even want to arrange an intervention with people she trusts, like girlfriends who know about her obsession with weight.
  In the early 1990s, they staged an intervention, warning him that he was killing himself.
  There was an intervention: they told me what I meant to them and told me I was killing myself, and they hated to see that happen.
  Perhaps if enough of his buddies feel this way, but are afraid to say something, they might help stage an intervention.
  When a loved one destroys himself with drink or drugs, we stage an intervention in the hope of forcing him to recognize the cost of his behavior to himself and to those who depend on him.
  You need an intervention to save you from yourself.
  The problem was so bad it caused her co-stars to throw an intervention.
  In the beginning, most people who go to rehab, whether it's because of an intervention or any other reason, don't go for the right reason.
  With the help of an outside counselor, the family staged an intervention, and convinced her to leave the organization.
  But my lovely husband, like a concerned family member staging an intervention, wouldn't let me fall back into my old ways.
  You're still good right now, but if you start to look skinnier, I will perform an intervention.
  She has revealed an intervention staged by her daughters finally prompted her to seek help for addiction issues.
  Once you decide to have an intervention, planning and preparation are the keys to success.
  Tina claims the family was so concerned for her well-being, at one point they staged an intervention.
  My housemates nearly had to wrest the CD from me and hold an intervention after I bought it and put it on 'repeat' for the next 4 days.
  When someone falls off track in life, people will often form a mob for the purposes of holding an intervention.

Derivatives

interventional

adjective

If it is normal, you can stop the medication, otherwise interventional therapy like angioplasty or bypass surgery may solve your problem.
Example sentencesExamples
- Besides interventional campaigns for prevention, there must also be rejection from within, of habits such as smoking
- The treatment, called vascular and interventional radiology, aims to help prevent strokes by reducing the chance of brain aneurysms rupturing.
- This not only results in less risk to the patient, but is also reassuring to the interventional cardiologist in that any emergency complication is unlikely when the patient leaves the hospital.
- Over 15 cardiologists, five surgeons, five interventional radiologists and two vascular surgeons are attached to the Metro Heart Hospital.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin interventio(n-), from the verb intervenire (see intervene).

Rhymes

abstention, apprehension, ascension, attention, circumvention, comprehension, condescension, contention, contravention, convention, declension, detention, dimension, dissension, extension, gentian, hypertension, hypotension, intention, invention, mention, misapprehension, obtention, pension, prehension, prevention, recension, retention, subvention, supervention, suspension, tension

Definition of intervention in US English:

intervention

nounˌin(t)ərˈven(t)SH(ə)nˌɪn(t)ərˈvɛn(t)ʃ(ə)n

1The action or process of intervening.
they are plants that grow naturally without human intervention
Example sentencesExamples
- They eagerly, even desperately, seek to create or receive such interventions.
- Second the costs of interventions, both explicit and implicit, did not become excessive.
- We can make our observations and interventions on behalf of the emerging poem or story.
- Studies have shown that the tree would be safe with only minor interventions.
- Research shows it's less helpful in normal labours and can lead to unnecessary interventions.
- Behind the parade of diets and workout regimes there have been more direct interventions.
- Most lyrical of all his interventions there is the restaurant on the edge of the vineyards.
- Also the possibilities of realist strategies as radical interventions should be broached.
- As economic interventions go it must surely rank as one of the biggest failures in history.
- Ecosystems are delicate and complex, easily disrupted by clumsy interventions.
- They were frustratingly denied by late deflections or timely interventions.
- Not only had he given his all going forward, he had helped out at the back with telling interventions.
- What we have here then is an extraordinary range of fairly informed interventions.
- However, these incentives are often distorted by interventions in the market.
- The result is one of the simplest artistic interventions I have ever seen and one of the most unforgettable.
- Many have raised several matters that Ann's kindly interventions have resolved.
1. 1.1 Interference by a country in another's affairs.
  the administration was reported to be considering military intervention
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is important to draw attention to this because it was a fully armed intervention under the Democrats.
  So the other powers have been mostly happy to go along with US military intervention.
  We have to build a movement that demands an end to the war and an end to US imperialist intervention in the region.
  This military intervention was sharply opposed from the beginning by the Polish people.
  I think we have to be concerned that we could have too much overkill, in terms of military intervention.
  Mass protests in the West will strengthen all those in the Middle East who want to resist imperialist intervention.
  It was precisely the product of 100 years of brutal intervention by colonial and imperialist forces.
  Underlying this was a fear of French intervention in Irish affairs.
  When in history has liberation ever resulted as a happy byproduct of imperialist intervention?
  There is growing global resentment concerning Americas policy of intervention in global affairs.
  European countries are also strengthening their military intervention in West Africa.
  Does the goal of defending or developing democracy justify military intervention and occupation of a country?
  A call went out for immediate protests this weekend against the danger of U.S. military intervention.
  While McDonald spoke of a limited operation, military intervention has a logic of its own.
  State intervention is considered quite acceptable in these circumstances.
  Such military intervention served to fuel these proxy wars rather than stop them.
  On my campus, there have been debates about whether any military intervention can be defended.
  These alliances led to increasing intervention in the affairs of such states and to wars fought on their behalf.
  Firstly comes direct intervention in the affairs of another country.
  Globalisation accelerates both the economic and military impact of imperialist intervention.
  Synonyms
  involvement, intercession, interceding, interposing, interposition
2. 1.2 Action taken to improve a situation, especially a medical disorder.
  two patients were referred for surgical intervention
  Example sentencesExamples
  Now is the time for pharmacological intervention, done under medical supervision.
  There is insufficient evidence as to whether this intervention improves cognitive performance.
  Some of these artists have drawn on their own experience of the effects of illness and medical intervention on their bodies.
  One child exhibited odd behaviour and one mild respiratory depression requiring no medical intervention.
  Surgical intervention is required at the earliest sign of an abscess.
  Isn't this a natural event best managed without medical intervention?
  Are happiness and enhanced self image the appropriate outcomes of medical intervention?
  Surgical intervention or, less commonly, thrombolytic therapy is indicated.
  This condition needs medical intervention both in the form of rapid diagnosis and treatment.
  Box 1 shows the main interventions for urinary tract infections and sore throat.
  Many interventions can be delivered through day surgery rather than lengthy hospital stays.
  Both treated and control groups received the same level of medical intervention.
  Could it be our interventions hinder the body's strategies to heal itself?
  Parents want autism to be diagnosed as early as possible, and early intervention may improve long term outcomes.
  Lack of medical intervention can lead to disability, pain, and reduced functioning.
  This suggests that the intervention improved clinical selection of cases for sputum sampling.
  The data will be analysed for possible trends and ways to improve and target medical intervention.
  More and more problems are seen as amenable to medical intervention.
  The internet is a feasible and powerful tool in delivering community based health interventions.
  At the moment, one in three births involves complications requiring medical intervention.
3. 1.3 An occasion on which a person with an addiction or other behavioral problem is confronted by a group of friends or family members in an attempt to persuade them to address the issue.
  as her health worsened, her daughters considered staging an intervention
  Example sentencesExamples
  But my lovely husband, like a concerned family member staging an intervention, wouldn't let me fall back into my old ways.
  Tina claims the family was so concerned for her well-being, at one point they staged an intervention.
  In the early 1990s, they staged an intervention, warning him that he was killing himself.
  When a loved one destroys himself with drink or drugs, we stage an intervention in the hope of forcing him to recognize the cost of his behavior to himself and to those who depend on him.
  She has revealed an intervention staged by her daughters finally prompted her to seek help for addiction issues.
  The problem was so bad it caused her co-stars to throw an intervention.
  There was an intervention: they told me what I meant to them and told me I was killing myself, and they hated to see that happen.
  The only people bold enough to conduct an intervention are those who consider themselves very close to you.
  With the help of an outside counselor, the family staged an intervention, and convinced her to leave the organization.
  An intervention, two stints in the Betty Ford clinic and a long retreat in Oregon helped her to clean out for good.
  You need an intervention to save you from yourself.
  In the beginning, most people who go to rehab, whether it's because of an intervention or any other reason, don't go for the right reason.
  When someone falls off track in life, people will often form a mob for the purposes of holding an intervention.
  My housemates nearly had to wrest the CD from me and hold an intervention after I bought it and put it on 'repeat' for the next 4 days.
  If all else fails, you may even want to arrange an intervention with people she trusts, like girlfriends who know about her obsession with weight.
  He came clean about his addiction for the first time after his roommates staged an intervention.
  You're still good right now, but if you start to look skinnier, I will perform an intervention.
  Once you decide to have an intervention, planning and preparation are the keys to success.
  Perhaps if enough of his buddies feel this way, but are afraid to say something, they might help stage an intervention.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin interventio(n-), from the verb intervenire (see intervene).

单词	intervention
释义	Definition of intervention in English: intervention noun ɪntəˈvɛnʃ(ə)nˌɪn(t)ərˈvɛn(t)ʃ(ə)n mass noun 1The action or process of intervening. a high degree of state intervention in the economy count noun repeated interventions by central banks Example sentencesExamples We can make our observations and interventions on behalf of the emerging poem or story. However, these incentives are often distorted by interventions in the market. Studies have shown that the tree would be safe with only minor interventions. Behind the parade of diets and workout regimes there have been more direct interventions. Ecosystems are delicate and complex, easily disrupted by clumsy interventions. Second the costs of interventions, both explicit and implicit, did not become excessive. Research shows it's less helpful in normal labours and can lead to unnecessary interventions. They eagerly, even desperately, seek to create or receive such interventions. As economic interventions go it must surely rank as one of the biggest failures in history. Not only had he given his all going forward, he had helped out at the back with telling interventions. Also the possibilities of realist strategies as radical interventions should be broached. The result is one of the simplest artistic interventions I have ever seen and one of the most unforgettable. They were frustratingly denied by late deflections or timely interventions. Many have raised several matters that Ann's kindly interventions have resolved. What we have here then is an extraordinary range of fairly informed interventions. Most lyrical of all his interventions there is the restaurant on the edge of the vineyards. 1.1 Interference by a state in another's affairs. the government was reported to be considering military intervention Example sentencesExamples I think we have to be concerned that we could have too much overkill, in terms of military intervention. This military intervention was sharply opposed from the beginning by the Polish people. It was precisely the product of 100 years of brutal intervention by colonial and imperialist forces. European countries are also strengthening their military intervention in West Africa. A call went out for immediate protests this weekend against the danger of U.S. military intervention. So the other powers have been mostly happy to go along with US military intervention. Underlying this was a fear of French intervention in Irish affairs. We have to build a movement that demands an end to the war and an end to US imperialist intervention in the region. Such military intervention served to fuel these proxy wars rather than stop them. When in history has liberation ever resulted as a happy byproduct of imperialist intervention? While McDonald spoke of a limited operation, military intervention has a logic of its own. It is important to draw attention to this because it was a fully armed intervention under the Democrats. These alliances led to increasing intervention in the affairs of such states and to wars fought on their behalf. Firstly comes direct intervention in the affairs of another country. Globalisation accelerates both the economic and military impact of imperialist intervention. Mass protests in the West will strengthen all those in the Middle East who want to resist imperialist intervention. On my campus, there have been debates about whether any military intervention can be defended. There is growing global resentment concerning Americas policy of intervention in global affairs. Does the goal of defending or developing democracy justify military intervention and occupation of a country? State intervention is considered quite acceptable in these circumstances. Synonyms involvement, intercession, interceding, interposing, interposition mediation, mediatorship, arbitration, conciliation, peacemaking interference, intrusion, meddling rare arbitrament 1.2 Action taken to improve a medical disorder. two patients were referred for surgical intervention Example sentencesExamples Could it be our interventions hinder the body's strategies to heal itself? Isn't this a natural event best managed without medical intervention? This condition needs medical intervention both in the form of rapid diagnosis and treatment. Many interventions can be delivered through day surgery rather than lengthy hospital stays. Box 1 shows the main interventions for urinary tract infections and sore throat. Surgical intervention is required at the earliest sign of an abscess. Both treated and control groups received the same level of medical intervention. More and more problems are seen as amenable to medical intervention. Some of these artists have drawn on their own experience of the effects of illness and medical intervention on their bodies. The data will be analysed for possible trends and ways to improve and target medical intervention. Are happiness and enhanced self image the appropriate outcomes of medical intervention? Parents want autism to be diagnosed as early as possible, and early intervention may improve long term outcomes. Now is the time for pharmacological intervention, done under medical supervision. Surgical intervention or, less commonly, thrombolytic therapy is indicated. The internet is a feasible and powerful tool in delivering community based health interventions. At the moment, one in three births involves complications requiring medical intervention. One child exhibited odd behaviour and one mild respiratory depression requiring no medical intervention. There is insufficient evidence as to whether this intervention improves cognitive performance. Lack of medical intervention can lead to disability, pain, and reduced functioning. This suggests that the intervention improved clinical selection of cases for sputum sampling. 1.3count noun An occasion on which a person with an addiction or other behavioural problem is confronted by a group of friends or family members in an attempt to persuade them to address the issue. as her health worsened, her daughters considered staging an intervention Example sentencesExamples He came clean about his addiction for the first time after his roommates staged an intervention. An intervention, two stints in the Betty Ford clinic and a long retreat in Oregon helped her to clean out for good. The only people bold enough to conduct an intervention are those who consider themselves very close to you. If all else fails, you may even want to arrange an intervention with people she trusts, like girlfriends who know about her obsession with weight. In the early 1990s, they staged an intervention, warning him that he was killing himself. There was an intervention: they told me what I meant to them and told me I was killing myself, and they hated to see that happen. Perhaps if enough of his buddies feel this way, but are afraid to say something, they might help stage an intervention. When a loved one destroys himself with drink or drugs, we stage an intervention in the hope of forcing him to recognize the cost of his behavior to himself and to those who depend on him. You need an intervention to save you from yourself. The problem was so bad it caused her co-stars to throw an intervention. In the beginning, most people who go to rehab, whether it's because of an intervention or any other reason, don't go for the right reason. With the help of an outside counselor, the family staged an intervention, and convinced her to leave the organization. But my lovely husband, like a concerned family member staging an intervention, wouldn't let me fall back into my old ways. You're still good right now, but if you start to look skinnier, I will perform an intervention. She has revealed an intervention staged by her daughters finally prompted her to seek help for addiction issues. Once you decide to have an intervention, planning and preparation are the keys to success. Tina claims the family was so concerned for her well-being, at one point they staged an intervention. My housemates nearly had to wrest the CD from me and hold an intervention after I bought it and put it on 'repeat' for the next 4 days. When someone falls off track in life, people will often form a mob for the purposes of holding an intervention. Derivatives interventional adjective If it is normal, you can stop the medication, otherwise interventional therapy like angioplasty or bypass surgery may solve your problem. Example sentencesExamples Besides interventional campaigns for prevention, there must also be rejection from within, of habits such as smoking The treatment, called vascular and interventional radiology, aims to help prevent strokes by reducing the chance of brain aneurysms rupturing. This not only results in less risk to the patient, but is also reassuring to the interventional cardiologist in that any emergency complication is unlikely when the patient leaves the hospital. Over 15 cardiologists, five surgeons, five interventional radiologists and two vascular surgeons are attached to the Metro Heart Hospital. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin interventio(n-), from the verb intervenire (see intervene). Rhymes abstention, apprehension, ascension, attention, circumvention, comprehension, condescension, contention, contravention, convention, declension, detention, dimension, dissension, extension, gentian, hypertension, hypotension, intention, invention, mention, misapprehension, obtention, pension, prehension, prevention, recension, retention, subvention, supervention, suspension, tension Definition of intervention in US English: intervention nounˌin(t)ərˈven(t)SH(ə)nˌɪn(t)ərˈvɛn(t)ʃ(ə)n 1The action or process of intervening. they are plants that grow naturally without human intervention Example sentencesExamples They eagerly, even desperately, seek to create or receive such interventions. Second the costs of interventions, both explicit and implicit, did not become excessive. We can make our observations and interventions on behalf of the emerging poem or story. Studies have shown that the tree would be safe with only minor interventions. Research shows it's less helpful in normal labours and can lead to unnecessary interventions. Behind the parade of diets and workout regimes there have been more direct interventions. Most lyrical of all his interventions there is the restaurant on the edge of the vineyards. Also the possibilities of realist strategies as radical interventions should be broached. As economic interventions go it must surely rank as one of the biggest failures in history. Ecosystems are delicate and complex, easily disrupted by clumsy interventions. They were frustratingly denied by late deflections or timely interventions. Not only had he given his all going forward, he had helped out at the back with telling interventions. What we have here then is an extraordinary range of fairly informed interventions. However, these incentives are often distorted by interventions in the market. The result is one of the simplest artistic interventions I have ever seen and one of the most unforgettable. Many have raised several matters that Ann's kindly interventions have resolved. 1.1 Interference by a country in another's affairs. the administration was reported to be considering military intervention Example sentencesExamples It is important to draw attention to this because it was a fully armed intervention under the Democrats. So the other powers have been mostly happy to go along with US military intervention. We have to build a movement that demands an end to the war and an end to US imperialist intervention in the region. This military intervention was sharply opposed from the beginning by the Polish people. I think we have to be concerned that we could have too much overkill, in terms of military intervention. Mass protests in the West will strengthen all those in the Middle East who want to resist imperialist intervention. It was precisely the product of 100 years of brutal intervention by colonial and imperialist forces. Underlying this was a fear of French intervention in Irish affairs. When in history has liberation ever resulted as a happy byproduct of imperialist intervention? There is growing global resentment concerning Americas policy of intervention in global affairs. European countries are also strengthening their military intervention in West Africa. Does the goal of defending or developing democracy justify military intervention and occupation of a country? A call went out for immediate protests this weekend against the danger of U.S. military intervention. While McDonald spoke of a limited operation, military intervention has a logic of its own. State intervention is considered quite acceptable in these circumstances. Such military intervention served to fuel these proxy wars rather than stop them. On my campus, there have been debates about whether any military intervention can be defended. These alliances led to increasing intervention in the affairs of such states and to wars fought on their behalf. Firstly comes direct intervention in the affairs of another country. Globalisation accelerates both the economic and military impact of imperialist intervention. Synonyms involvement, intercession, interceding, interposing, interposition 1.2 Action taken to improve a situation, especially a medical disorder. two patients were referred for surgical intervention Example sentencesExamples Now is the time for pharmacological intervention, done under medical supervision. There is insufficient evidence as to whether this intervention improves cognitive performance. Some of these artists have drawn on their own experience of the effects of illness and medical intervention on their bodies. One child exhibited odd behaviour and one mild respiratory depression requiring no medical intervention. Surgical intervention is required at the earliest sign of an abscess. Isn't this a natural event best managed without medical intervention? Are happiness and enhanced self image the appropriate outcomes of medical intervention? Surgical intervention or, less commonly, thrombolytic therapy is indicated. This condition needs medical intervention both in the form of rapid diagnosis and treatment. Box 1 shows the main interventions for urinary tract infections and sore throat. Many interventions can be delivered through day surgery rather than lengthy hospital stays. Both treated and control groups received the same level of medical intervention. Could it be our interventions hinder the body's strategies to heal itself? Parents want autism to be diagnosed as early as possible, and early intervention may improve long term outcomes. Lack of medical intervention can lead to disability, pain, and reduced functioning. This suggests that the intervention improved clinical selection of cases for sputum sampling. The data will be analysed for possible trends and ways to improve and target medical intervention. More and more problems are seen as amenable to medical intervention. The internet is a feasible and powerful tool in delivering community based health interventions. At the moment, one in three births involves complications requiring medical intervention. 1.3 An occasion on which a person with an addiction or other behavioral problem is confronted by a group of friends or family members in an attempt to persuade them to address the issue. as her health worsened, her daughters considered staging an intervention Example sentencesExamples But my lovely husband, like a concerned family member staging an intervention, wouldn't let me fall back into my old ways. Tina claims the family was so concerned for her well-being, at one point they staged an intervention. In the early 1990s, they staged an intervention, warning him that he was killing himself. When a loved one destroys himself with drink or drugs, we stage an intervention in the hope of forcing him to recognize the cost of his behavior to himself and to those who depend on him. She has revealed an intervention staged by her daughters finally prompted her to seek help for addiction issues. The problem was so bad it caused her co-stars to throw an intervention. There was an intervention: they told me what I meant to them and told me I was killing myself, and they hated to see that happen. The only people bold enough to conduct an intervention are those who consider themselves very close to you. With the help of an outside counselor, the family staged an intervention, and convinced her to leave the organization. An intervention, two stints in the Betty Ford clinic and a long retreat in Oregon helped her to clean out for good. You need an intervention to save you from yourself. In the beginning, most people who go to rehab, whether it's because of an intervention or any other reason, don't go for the right reason. When someone falls off track in life, people will often form a mob for the purposes of holding an intervention. My housemates nearly had to wrest the CD from me and hold an intervention after I bought it and put it on 'repeat' for the next 4 days. If all else fails, you may even want to arrange an intervention with people she trusts, like girlfriends who know about her obsession with weight. He came clean about his addiction for the first time after his roommates staged an intervention. You're still good right now, but if you start to look skinnier, I will perform an intervention. Once you decide to have an intervention, planning and preparation are the keys to success. Perhaps if enough of his buddies feel this way, but are afraid to say something, they might help stage an intervention. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin interventio(n-), from the verb intervenire (see intervene).
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