Interfere

Verb

 * 1)  To get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance.
 * I always try not to interfere with other people’s personal affairs.
 * 1)  (physics) (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.
 * Where the radio-wave signals of the two radio stations interfere the listener hears nothing but noise.

Derived terms

 * interference

Adverbs for Interfere
boisterously; materially; consciously; energetically; unreasonably; irrationally; officiously; arrogantly; providentially; destructively; judicially; jealously; enviously; vindictively.

Thesaurus
antagonize, arrest, baffle, balk, bar, barge in, be antipathetic, be inimical, beat against, block, bottle up, break in, break in upon, burst in, busybody, butt in, charge in, check, clash, collide, come between, conflict, conflict with, confute, contradict, contrapose, contravene, counter, counteract, counterattack, countercheck, counterpose, countervail, counterwork, crash, crash in, crash the gates, creep in, cross, crowd in, curb, cut in, dam up, damp, dampen, delay, detain, discommode, edge in, elbow in, encroach, encumber, entrench, foil, foist in, fool, frustrate, go against, go counter to, hamper, handicap, hinder, hold back, hold in check, hold up, horn in, impede, impinge, impose, impose on, impose upon, incommode, inconvenience, infiltrate, infringe, inhibit, insinuate, intercede, intercept, interfere with, interlope, intermeddle, intermediate, interpose, interrupt, intervene, intrude, invade, irrupt, keep back, keep in check, kibitz, lock horns, make, meddle, mediate, meet head-on, militate against, monkey with, obstruct, obtrude, oppose, oppugn, press in, push in, put on, put upon, repress, resist, restrain, retard, run against, run counter to, rush in, sabotage, scotch, set back, slacken, slink in, slip in, slow, smash in, sneak in, snub, squeeze in, steal in, step in, storm in, subvert, suppress, swim upstream, tamper with, throng in, thrust in, thwart, trammel, trench, trespass, trouble, work against, work in, worm in

Etymology
Old French entreferir, from entre, + ferir, “to strike”, Latin ferire, “to strike”, “to knock”.

Translations

 * Finnish: ,


 * French: se, se mêler de, ,


 * Finnish: interferoida


 * French:


 * Arabic: عاق, عرقل
 * Bosnian:, otežavati
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (fáng'ài);  (zǔ'ài)
 * Min Nan: (chó·-gāi)
 * Croatian:, otežavati
 * Dutch: (hinder), moeilijk  (make difficult)
 * Estonian: takistama, pidurdama, tagasi hoidma
 * Georgian: დაბრკოლება, შეფერხება
 * German: erschweren
 * Greek: (parempodízo)
 * Hungarian: meggátol, megakadályoz
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latin: ,
 * Norwegian (bokmål):
 * Norwegian (nynorsk):
 * Polish:, powstrzymywać
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, препятствовать
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:, отежавати
 * Roman:, otežavati
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: kinga, kinza
 * Swedish:, försvåra (to make difficult)
 * Thai: กีดขวาง, กีด