interfere
To get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance.
Example
“I always try not to interfere with other people’s personal affairs.”
Other meanings
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.”
Of a horse, to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle by using the legs.
Related words
- interferant
- interferer
- interferogram
- interferometer
- interferon
- reinterfere
- interferingly
- interferingness
- noninterfering
- uninterfered
- interference
- small interfering RNA
Word history
From Old French "entreferir".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “interfere” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.