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All interfere synonyms

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verb interfere

  • meddle β€” to involve oneself in a matter without right or invitation; interfere officiously and unwantedly: Stop meddling in my personal life!
  • hinder β€” to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
  • prevent β€” to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
  • intrude β€” to thrust or bring in without invitation, permission, or welcome.
  • inhibit β€” to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse, etc.).
  • impede β€” to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder.
  • obstruct β€” to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
  • hamper β€” to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
  • inconvenience β€” the quality or state of being inconvenient.
  • stop β€” to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
  • frustrate β€” to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
  • baffle β€” If something baffles you, you cannot understand it or explain it.
  • obtrude β€” to thrust (something) forward or upon a person, especially without warrant or invitation: to obtrude one's opinions upon others.
  • foil β€” to cover or back with foil.
  • incommode β€” to inconvenience or discomfort; disturb; trouble.
  • intermediate β€” being, situated, or acting between two points, stages, things, persons, etc.: the intermediate steps in a procedure.
  • trouble β€” to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
  • intercede β€” to act or interpose in behalf of someone in difficulty or trouble, as by pleading or petition: to intercede with the governor for a condemned man.
  • remit β€” to transmit or send (money, a check, etc.) to a person or place, usually in payment.
  • trammel β€” Usually, trammels. a hindrance or impediment to free action; restraint: the trammels of custom.
  • oppose β€” to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
  • discommode β€” to cause inconvenience to; disturb, trouble, or bother.
  • intermit β€” to discontinue temporarily; suspend.
  • suspend β€” to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
  • thwart β€” to oppose successfully; prevent from accomplishing a purpose.
  • interlope β€” to intrude into some region or field of trade without a proper license.
  • tamper β€” to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
  • make β€” to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
  • jam β€” to press, squeeze, or wedge tightly between bodies or surfaces, so that motion or extrication is made difficult or impossible: The ship was jammed between two rocks.
  • conflict β€” Conflict is serious disagreement and argument about something important. If two people or groups are in conflict, they have had a serious disagreement or argument and have not yet reached agreement.
  • balk β€” If you balk at something, you definitely do not want to do it or to let it happen.
  • handicap β€” a race or other contest in which certain disadvantages or advantages of weight, distance, time, etc., are placed upon competitors to equalize their chances of winning.
  • interpose β€” to place between; cause to intervene: to interpose an opaque body between a light and the eye.
  • barge in β€” If you barge in or barge in on someone, you rudely interrupt what they are doing or saying.
  • busybody β€” If you refer to someone as a busybody, you are criticizing the way they interfere in other people's affairs.
  • butt in β€” If you say that someone is butting in, you are criticizing the fact that they are joining in a conversation or activity without being asked to.
  • hold up β€” to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
  • horn in β€” one of the bony, permanent, hollow paired growths, often curved and pointed, that project from the upper part of the head of certain ungulate mammals, as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes.
  • step in β€” (of garments, shoes, etc.) put on by being stepped into.
  • get in the way β€” be an obstacle
  • get involved β€” play a part
  • hang up β€” the way in which a thing hangs.
  • intermeddle β€” to take part in a matter, especially officiously; meddle.
  • delay β€” If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
  • restrict β€” to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.
  • affect β€” If something affects a person or thing, it influences them or causes them to change in some way.
  • intervene β€” to come between disputing people, groups, etc.; intercede; mediate.
  • baulk β€” the space, usually 29 inches deep, between the baulk line and the bottom cushion
  • pry β€” to inquire impertinently or unnecessarily into something: to pry into the personal affairs of others.
  • disturb β€” to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.
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