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/ˌɪntərfˈɪrɪŋ/ /ˌɪnərfˈɪrɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Interfere v. i. (past & past part. interfered; pres. part. interfering)

1.

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.

2.

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. "To interfere with party disputes." "There was no room for anyone to interfere with his own opinions."

3.

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.

4.

(Physics) To act reciprocally, so as to augment, diminish, or otherwise affect one another; said of waves, rays of light, heat, etc. See Interference, 2.

5.

(Patent Law) To cover the same ground; to claim the same invention; as, to interfere with another patent.

Synonyms: To interpose; intermeddle. See Interpose.

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"Interfering" Quotes from Famous Books

... general effect of new tariffs is obvious. Usual prices and confidence are so disturbed that buyers either hold off, keeping their money available, or else draw unusually large amounts so as to buy stock before adverse tariff changes, thus tightening money in both ways by interfering with its accustomed circulation. This tendency towards contraction spreads and induces further withdrawal of deposits, thus requiring the banks to reduce their loans; and so runs on and on to increasing discomfort and uneasiness until panic is speedily produced. The practical coincidence ...

— A Brief History of Panics • Clement Juglar

... not know to have ever before cooeperated, and directed exclusively toward an object of common interest—is in itself a fact of high importance, as manifesting a decided growth of pan-Hellenic feeling. Sparta is not named as interfering—a circumstance which seems remarkable when we consider both her power, even as it then stood, and her intimate connection with the Delphian oracle—while the Athenians appear as the chief movers, through the greatest and best of their citizens. ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1 • Various

... about 1538, and died in 1623. His later life would have been full of trouble, and the noose or the flames at the stake might have terminated it, if powerful patrons had not sheltered him. The Nonconformist conscience was developing its passion for interfering in other people's private concerns. Byrde, to worship as he thought fit, and to avoid the consequences of doing it, had often to lie in hiding. But he got safely through, and composed a large quantity of splendid Church music, besides some quite unimportant secular music. His masses have ...

— Purcell • John F. Runciman

... murdered ruthlessly, and American women have been roughly treated. British subjects have been shot without the shadow of an excuse, and other foreigners have been maltreated. This country claims to uphold the Monroe Doctrine, which prevents European nations from interfering with force in affairs on this continent. If that is the case, then the United States must put an end to the numberless outrages against Americans and Europeans that take place every week in Mexico. That once ...

— Dave Darrin at Vera Cruz • H. Irving Hancock

... meeting she told him quite frankly that he was interfering with her work, that she could not have him accompanying her, waiting for her, picking her up as if ...

— King John of Jingalo - The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties • Laurence Housman

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