verb
- Come between so as to be hindrance or obstacle.
- usage: "Your talking interferes with my work"
- synonyms: interfere
- Get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force.
- usage: "Why did the U. S. Not intervene earlier in WW II"
adjective
- Intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner.
- usage: "an interfering old woman"; "bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself"; "busy about other people's business"
- synonyms: meddlesome, meddling, officious, busy, busybodied
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