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/ˌɪntərfˈɪrəns/ /ˌɪnərfˈɪrəns/ Listen

Interference

noun

A policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries. Synonym: intervention. Antonyms: nonintervention, noninterference.

The act of hindering or obstructing or impeding. Synonyms: hinderance, hindrance.

Electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication. Synonyms: disturbance, noise.

(American football) blocking a player's path with your body.

Any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome. Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, preventative, preventive.

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"Interference" Quotes from Famous Books

... on being liberated, he proceeded to Packanokick, instead of returning to the settlement, he would flay the unhappy Squanto alive, and send his skin and scalp to the white-hearted English, to show them that the red men scorned their interference, and knew ...

— The Pilgrims of New England - A Tale Of The Early American Settlers • Mrs. J. B. Webb

... responsible for administration in India would have all the power for which they had a right to ask. Upon that I can—though I am half reluctant to do it—completely clear my character. In December last, shortly before I addressed your Lordships, Lord Minto, having observed there was some talk of my interference with him and his Council, telegraphed these words, and desired that I should make use of them whenever ...

— Indian speeches (1907-1909) • John Morley (AKA Viscount Morley)

... do to make something like the beginnings of an army out of the conglomerating mass. Winfield Scott, the veteran General-in-Chief, rightly revered by the whole service as a most experienced, farsighted, and practical man, was ably assisted by W. T. Sherman and Irvin McDowell. But civilian interference ruined all. Even Lincoln had not yet learned the quintessential difference between that civil control by which the fighting services are so rightly made the real servants of the whole people and that civilian interference which is very much the same as if a landlubber owning a ship should grab ...

— Captains of the Civil War - A Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray, Volume 31, The - Chronicles Of America Series • William Wood

... restriction would have been permitted to hold south of the Ohio and west of the slaveholding States, directly in the line of migration. Indeed, when the time did arrive to create a government south of the Ohio, interference with slavery was distinctly prohibited. It is true, also, that Jefferson's ordinance as adopted solemnly declared its articles a charter of compact to stand as unalterable constitutions both before and after the sale of ...

— The United States of America Part I • Ediwn Erle Sparks

... the servant increased. Being a dutiful and watchful employe, his first impulse was to repel this nocturnal invasion of the house. But something in Britz's stern attitude convinced him that the unwelcome visitor would forcibly resent any interference. ...

— The Substitute Prisoner • Max Marcin

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