interfere

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

verb come between so as to be hindrance or obstacle
verb get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force

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

Nobody will interfere with you. — John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein, Frank R. Stockton
You must not interfere, come what may. — The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English, Unknown
"Then you mustn't interfere with the colonel." — Only an Irish Boy; Or, Andy Burke's Fortunes, Horatio, Jr. Alger

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