puuttua — meaning in English

English meaning

• intervene verb To become involved in a situation in order to change or stop what is happening.
• lack noun The absence or shortage of something needed or wanted.
• miss verb To fail to hit, catch, reach, or make contact with something.
• short adjective Not long in length, distance, or duration.

Senses

puuttua is used for these senses in English:

• clamp down on (transitive, idiomatic) To take measures to stop (something); to put an end to (something); to exert tighter control of (something); to treat (someone or something) more harshly.
• intervene (ambitransitive) To come between, or to be between, persons or things.
• lack (transitive, stative) To be without, not to have, to need, to require.
• miss (transitive, mostly continuous tenses) To be wanting; to lack something that should be present (see also adjectival missing).
• short Deficient in.

intervene — full definition

1. verb To become involved in a situation in order to change or stop what is happening.
2. verb To occur or fall between two points in time or two events.

lack — full definition

1. noun The absence or shortage of something needed or wanted.
2. verb To not have, or not have enough of, something.

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