Meaning

(intransitive) To get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance.
2. (intransitive, physics) Of waves, to be correlated with each other when overlapped or superposed.
3. Of a horse, to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle by using the legs.
4. (intransitive, with with) To sexually molest, especially of a child.

Example Sentences

I always try not to interfere with other people’s personal affairs.

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.

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.

The investigation found the girls had been interfered with.

Word Forms

• interferes
• interfering
• interfered
• enterfere

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When Should You Use Interfere?

Use interfere when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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