interfere
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- enterfere (obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]From Old French entreferir, from entre- + ferir (“to hit, to strike”), itself from the Latin verb ferio.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌɪntɚˈfɪɹ/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌɪntəˈfɪə(ɹ)/
Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: in‧ter‧fere
- Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Verb
[edit]interfere (third-person singular simple present interferes, present participle interfering, simple past and past participle interfered)
- (intransitive) To get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance.
- I always try not to interfere with other people’s personal affairs.
- 1923 October, Robert Frost, “[Notes.] The Axe-helve.”, in New Hampshire […], New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 37:
- I’ve known ere now an interfering branch / Of alder catch my lifted axe behind me. / But that was in the woods, to hold my hand / From striking at another alder’s roots, / And that was, as I say, an alder branch.
- (intransitive, physics) (of waves) To be correlated with each other when overlapped or superposed.
- Correlated waves interfere to produce interesting patterns, while uncorrelated waves overlap without interfering.
- Where the radio-wave signals of the two radio stations interfere the listener hears nothing but noise.
- (mostly of horses) To strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
- (intransitive, followed by "with") To sexually molest, especially of a child.
- The investigation found the girls had been interfered with.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]get involved, causing disturbance
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strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs
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sexually molest
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See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- interference on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Galician
[edit]Verb
[edit]interfere
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection of interferir:
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]interfēre
Portuguese
[edit]Verb
[edit]interfere
- inflection of interferir:
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