What does interfere mean?
Definitions for interfere
ˌɪn tərˈfɪərin·ter·fer·e
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Princeton's WordNet
interfereverb
come between so as to be hindrance or obstacle
"Your talking interferes with my work!"
intervene, step in, interfere, interposeverb
get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force
"Why did the U.S. not intervene earlier in WW II?"
GCIDE
Interfereverb
To come in collision; to be in opposition; to clash; -- usually used with with; as, interfering claims, or commands; workers in a crowded shop may interfere with each other's activity.
Interfereverb
To enter into, or take a part in, the concerns of others; to intermeddle; to interpose; -- used with in or with; as, to interfere with the way I raise my children.
Wiktionary
interfereverb
To get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance.
I always try not to interfere with other people's personal affairs.
interfereverb
(of waves) To be correlated with each other when overlapped or superposed.
Etymology: entreferir, from entre- + ferir, itself from the verb ferio.
Webster Dictionary
Interfereverb
to come in collision; to be in opposition; to clash; as, interfering claims, or commands
Interfereverb
to enter into, or take a part in, the concerns of others; to intermeddle; to interpose
Interfereverb
to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs; -- sometimes said of a human being, but usually of a horse; as, the horse interferes
Interfereverb
to act reciprocally, so as to augment, diminish, or otherwise affect one another; -- said of waves, rays of light, heat, etc. See Interference, 2
Interfereverb
to cover the same ground; to claim the same invention
Etymology: [OF. entreferir to strike each other; entre between (L. inter) + OF. ferir to strike, F. frir, fr. L. ferire. See Ferula.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Interfere
in-tėr-fēr′, v.i. to come in collision: to intermeddle: to interpose: to act reciprocally—said of waves, rays of light, &c.—ns. Interfer′ence; Interfer′er.—adv. Interfer′ingly. [Through O. Fr., from L. inter, between, ferīre, to strike.]
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The numerical value of interfere in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
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The numerical value of interfere in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of interfere in a Sentence
As we get older the brain can get smaller, so the bridging veins can have small bleeds and patients may need to be screened cognitively with an examination as well as imaging to look for subtle chronic subdural hematomas that can interfere with walking and cognition and cause chronic complaints.
No one can say( the Russians) didn't interfere, and, in fact, I think taint the election.
We urge relevant countries to stop politicizing health issues and using Taiwan issues to interfere in China's internal affairs.
The question is should we heal the problem while it's still cheap, like the British did, or do you run it down the drain and when it's almost broken then you interfere.
It looks like the U.S. just took the scale of the trade frictions to another level, right now, world trade is relatively chaotic. We believe the U.S. measures interfere with economic globalization and damage the world economic order.
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- عاق, تدخل, عرقلArabic
- dificultar, interferir, destorbarCatalan, Valencian
- stören, erschwerenGerman
- παρεμποδίζωGreek
- impedir, interferirSpanish
- tagasi hoidma, takistama, pidurdamaEstonian
- sekaantua, interferoida, sotkeutuaFinnish
- perturber, mêler, interférer, entraverFrench
- meggátol, megakadályozHungarian
- menggangguIndonesian
- impedireItalian
- 干渉, 妨げるJapanese
- დაბრკოლება, შეფერხებაGeorgian
- 저지하다Korean
- officiō, obstōLatin
- whawheMāori
- hemmeNorwegian
- maken, hinderenDutch
- hemmeNorwegian Nynorsk
- powstrzymywać, przeszkadzaćPolish
- stânjeni, împiedicaRomanian
- препятствовать, мешать, интерферироватьRussian
- отежавати, sprečiti, spriječiti, спречити, otežavatiSerbo-Croatian
- försvåra, hindraSwedish
- kinga, kinzaSwahili
- กีดขวาง, กีดThai
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