v.
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(interfere with)
prevent from continuing or being carried out properly.
▸get in the way of.
▸handle or adjust without permission.
▸Law attempt to bribe or intimidate (a witness).
- intervene without invitation or necessity.
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(interfere with)
Brit. euphemistic sexually molest.
- Physics interact to produce interference.
- (of a horse) knock one foot against the fetlock of another leg.
Derivative
- interferer n.
- interfering adj.
- interferingly adv.
Etymology
ME: from OFr. s'entreferir ‘strike each other’, from entre- ‘between’ + ferir (from L. ferire ‘to strike’).