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Interfere

//ˌɪn.tɚˈfɪɚ// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance. intransitive

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

  2. 2
    come between so as to be hindrance or obstacle wordnet
  3. 3
    (of waves) To be correlated with each other when overlapped or superposed. intransitive

    "Correlated waves interfere to produce interesting patterns, while uncorrelated waves overlap without interfering."

  4. 4
    get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force wordnet
  5. 5
    To strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
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  1. 6
    To sexually molest, especially of a child. intransitive

    "The investigation found the girls had been interfered with."

Etymology

From Old French entreferir, from entre- + ferir (“to hit, to strike”), itself from the Latin verb ferio.

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