Word Finder - interfered

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To get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance.

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

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(of waves) To be correlated with each other when overlapped or superposed.

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Correlated waves interfere to produce interesting patterns, while uncorrelated waves overlap without interfering.

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(mostly of horses) To strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.

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(followed by "with") To sexually molest, especially of a child.

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The investigation found the boys had been interfered with.

I never should've interfered, Gabriel.

It was when man interfered that things got out of balance.

Why have you interfered at all?

The grandi were disappointed because he had not crushed the popolo, and the latter because he had destroyed their liberties and interfered with the organization of the arti.

They could've interfered with our plan.

Subsequently Juan Manuel Rosas, dictator of Buenos Aires, interfered in the intestine quarrels of Uruguay; and Montevideo was besieged by his forces, allied with the native partisans of General Oribe, for nine years (1843-52).

The tribes north of this line were told that if they abstained from raiding to the south of it they would not be interfered with.

In north German politics he interfered vigorously to protect his brotherin-law the Margrave Louis of Brandenburg against the lords of Mecklenburg and the dukes of Pomerania, with such success that the emperor, Charles IV., at the conference of Bautzen, was reconciled to the Brandenburger and allowed Valdemar an annual charge of 16,000 silver marks on the city of Lubeck (1349) Some years later Valdemar seriously thought of reviving the ancient claims of Denmark upon England, and entered into negotiations with the French king, John, who in his distress looked to this descendant of the ancient Vikings for help. A matrimonial alliance between the two crowns was even discussed, and Valdemar offered, for the huge sum of 600,000 gulden, to transport 12,000 men to England.

I interfered.  You have until he passes or fails the final trial.

But the climate did not agree with him, and his official duties interfered with his theological studies.

Lugard appealed to the king to do justice, but he himself was treated with scant courtesy, and his envoy was told that the French party would sack Kampala if Lugard interfered on behalf of the murdered man.

The military rashly interfered, and several innocent spectators were shot.

Infant schools, which are generally in the hands of private societies or the municipal authorities, are not interfered with by the state.

If the access of oxygen to a protoplast is interfered with its normal respiration soon ceases, but frequently other changes supervene.

Abuses arising from the granting of indulgences were to be remedied, and the excessive number of church holidays, which seriously interfered with the industrial welfare of Germany, was to be reduced.

American, and later Canadian, capital and enterprise have also been very largely concerned in the development of the country; and its progress was not permanently interfered with by the great earthquakes of April 1907 and July 1909 at Acapulco, and the floods in August 1909 at Monterey.

Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British ambassador at Washington, having failed to obtain an assurance that British vessels would not be interfered with, laid a formal protest before the United States government.

Thus there originated a separate dynasty of Irak with its capital at Hamadan (Ecbatana); but Sinjar during his long reign often interfered in the affairs of the new dynasty, and every occupant of the throne had to acknowledge his supremacy.

Beliefs regarding the gods and life after death were self-contradictory and variable, but none interfered with the custom of preserving the body.

The apostolic see hardly ever interfered in the government of the local Churches.

The League interfered in every relation of life, and the mere fact of not belonging to it was often severely punished.

It was urged by anti-Copernicans that a body flung upward or cast downward would, if the earth were in motion, be left behind by the rapid translation of the point from which it started; Galileo proved on the contrary that the reception of a fresh impulse in no way interfered with the movement already impressed, and that the rotation of the earth was insensible, because shared equally by all bodies at its surface.

Their religion was not interfered with; they managed their own local affairs and kept their own language, although Latin was used officially.

Why is your brother so pissy when he interfered with my life?

I would've broken Immortal Code and interfered had I known, Gabriel said.

The European wars of the French revolutionary period interfered with the traffic with Spain, and so relaxed the bonds of a commercial system which hampered the manufactures of Mexico and drained away its wealth.

Favourably received by the regent, they opened a little chapel, and were in a fair way to establish an important mission, when the Chinese ambassador interfered and had the two missionaries conveyed back to Canton, where they arrived in October of the same year.

His devotion to mathematical science seems to have interfered alike with his advancement in the Church and with the proper management of his private affairs.

Sozomen relates that Alexander only interfered after being charged with remissness in leaving Arius so long to disturb the faith of the church.

The Mongol Khoshotes in 1706 and the Sungars in 1717 interfered again in the succession of the Dalai lama, but the Chinese army finally conquered the country in 1720, and the present system of government was established.

Albert's rival was George's son-in-law, Rupert, formerly bishop of Freising, and son of Philip, count palatine of the Rhine; and the emperor Maximilian I., interested as archduke of Austria and count of Tirol, interfered in the dispute.

In 1658, the States-General interfered to save the Danes from Charles Gustavus of Sweden.

Here he continued his multifarious labours; but the church seems to have decreased, and his many engagements and bulky correspondence interfered seriously with his pulpit work, and with the discipline of his academy, where he had some 200 students to whom he lectured on philosophy and theology in the mathematical or Spinozistic style.

Earlier and greater kings had remorselessly destroyed buildings which interfered with their own plans.

Lincoln had early put himself on record as opposed to slavery, but he was never technically an abolitionist; he allied himself rather with those who believed that slavery should be fought within the Constitution, that, though it could not be constitutionally interfered with in individual states, it should be excluded from territory over which the national government had jurisdiction.

Domestic slavery is not interfered with.

The extension of British rule north of the Orange was opposed by Andries Pretorius, who, being defeated at Boomplaats, withdrew north of the Vaal, where, though not interfered with by the British, the Boers split up into several rival parties.

Charles, by Hyde's advice, had not interfered in the movement, and had avoided inconvenient concessions to the various factions by referring all to a " free parliament."

The crown occasionally interfered in a more unjustifiable manner with the companies in the exercise of their patronage.

The abuse naturally reappeared under a man like Domitian; the delators, with whom Vespasian had not interfered, although he had abolished trials for majestas, were again banished by Trajan, and threatened with capital punishment in an edict of Constantine; but, as has been said, the evil, which was an almost necessary accompaniment of autocracy, lasted till the end of the 4th century.

After this the chiefs of Las and Wad, the Marris and Bugtis, Kej and Makran all threw off their allegiance, and anarchy became so widespread that the British government again interfered.

From the peace of Amiens (1802) till 1804 Lord Eldon appears to have interfered little in politics.

This deflection of water has also seriously interfered with the palm groves, the cultivation of which constitutes a large part of the industry of the surrounding country along the river.

At this juncture the government of Chile interfered actively, and espousing the cause of Gamarra, sent troops into Peru.

The Inquisition interfered, and the dying king was driven mad among them.

The political troubles of France interfered for a time with his career.

If the latter should be adopted, slavery should cease " except " that the right to property in slaves in the Territory should not be interfered with.

Fortunately the pope interfered for a moment to lighten the friction; being threatened with a new invasion by the emperor Frederick, he suspended the sentences and sent legates to patch up a peace.

For his ministers, bureaucrats of an orderly frame of mind, devised for their own convenience rules and customs which became permanent, and could be cited against those later kings who interfered more actively in the details of domestic governance.

In 1825 he gained a Trinity scholarship. De Morgan's love of wide reading somewhat interfered with his success in the mathematical tripos, in which he took the fourth place in 1827.