interfere

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to get involved in something that is not your business, causing trouble.

   I always try not to interfere with other people's personal affairs.

2. 2
   verb

   to get in the way of something and stop it from happening properly.

   Your talking interferes with my work.

From Old French entreferir, from entre- + ferir (“to hit, to strike”), itself from the Latin verb ferio.

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