interfere

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[ UK /ˌɪntəfˈi‍ə/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnɝˈfɪɹ, ˌɪntɝˈfɪɹ/ ]

VERB

come between so as to be hindrance or obstacle
Your talking interferes with my work!
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?

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How To Use interfere In A Sentence

I learned how to negotiate fights between adolescent girls without making it seem like parental interference.
T.e Saints D received a couple of cheap calls againt Farve, but the refs made it up with the "mystery" defensive pass interference call in O/T. Shutdown Corner Yahoo! Sports - Top News
Committed by parents, teachers, priests or minders it undermines trust and dependency, disrupts relations with authority figures and can interfere with loving and learning.
But physical discomforts during the third trimester, such as heartburn, leg cramps, fetal movement, shortness of breath and sinus congestion, can again interfere with sleep.
Poirot himself remains unchanged, although his interference is a catalyst for the woman's change. Archive 2008-10-01
To ensure that there is no interference from the most recent deworming, FECRT should not be performed within eight weeks following the last benzimidazole or pyrimidine treatment, or within 12 (ivermectin) or 16 (moxidectin) weeks after a macrocyclic lactone treatment. Thoroughbred News | BloodHorse.com
CHAPTER Seventeen EMERSON was unreasonably annoyed with me for what he called my unwarranted interference. The Curse of the Pharaohs
He was a large, meaty, oily type of man — a kind of ambling, gelatinous formula of the male, with the usual sound commercial instincts of the Jew, but with an errant philosophy which led him to believe first one thing and then another so long as neither interfered definitely with his business. The Titan
Don't interfere in matters that do not concern you!
Experts fear that if further development closes off these migration paths, it will interfere with the pronghorn's life cycle, eventually causing the species to disappear.

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