as in messed
to interest oneself in what is not one's concern
a strong resentment of outsiders who attempted to interfere with their traditional ways of doing things
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Recent Examples of interfered
Other labels would have interfered.
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Aaron Gilbreath, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2024
Baca’s successors carried on the tradition until the COVID-19 pandemic interfered in 2020.
—Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
The original wedding site was quite a ways outside Vancouver, where the show is primarily filmed, but concerns about the limited options for pivoting in case the unpredictable June weather interfered prompted them to move the location three or four days before filming took place.
—Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
These quantum possibilities interfered like two waves.
—Natalie Wolchover, Quanta Magazine, 17 Dec. 2024
Neither the attorney general nor my office interfered nor influenced that process.
—Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 16 Dec. 2024
In the video, the pilot shared a real-life experience when phones that were not toggled to airplane mode interfered.
—Sydney Borchers, Fox News, 10 Dec. 2024
The Assad regime for decades interfered violently in Lebanese politics.
—Nicholas Kristof, The Mercury News, 10 Dec. 2024
The Supreme Court has interfered in death penalty cases on several occasions.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
Aaron Gilbreath, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2024
Baca’s successors carried on the tradition until the COVID-19 pandemic interfered in 2020.
—Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
The original wedding site was quite a ways outside Vancouver, where the show is primarily filmed, but concerns about the limited options for pivoting in case the unpredictable June weather interfered prompted them to move the location three or four days before filming took place.
—Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
These quantum possibilities interfered like two waves.
—Natalie Wolchover, Quanta Magazine, 17 Dec. 2024
Neither the attorney general nor my office interfered nor influenced that process.
—Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 16 Dec. 2024
In the video, the pilot shared a real-life experience when phones that were not toggled to airplane mode interfered.
—Sydney Borchers, Fox News, 10 Dec. 2024
The Assad regime for decades interfered violently in Lebanese politics.
—Nicholas Kristof, The Mercury News, 10 Dec. 2024
The Supreme Court has interfered in death penalty cases on several occasions.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
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“Interfered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interfered. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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