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INTERFERE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Come between so as to be hindrance or obstacle

Example:

Your talking interferes with my work!

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "interfere" is one way to...):

hinder; impede (be a hindrance or obstacle to)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

interference (the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force

Example:

Why did the U.S. not intervene earlier in WW II?

Synonyms:

interfere; interpose; intervene; step in

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "interfere" is one way to...):

interact (act together or towards others or with others)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "interfere"):

meddle; tamper (intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly)

interlope (encroach on the rights of others, as in trading without a proper license)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

interference (a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries)

Credits

 Context examples: 

“Aw, go lay down, you make me tired,” Leach interfered.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

XIAP interferes with both the intrinsic and extrinsic program-death signaling pathways, which may render tumor cells resistant to apoptosis.

(AEG35156, NCI Thesaurus)

Agents that modulate the activity of kinesins, specifically those that produce inhibitory effects, interfere with mitotic spindle assembly, organization and eventually, chromosome alignment and segregation, thereby inducing mitotic arrest.

(Mitotic Kinesin Modulator, NCI Thesaurus)

They cannot interfere on the strength of what would appear to them to be a wild suspicion.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The event interferes with usual activities of daily living, causing discomfort but poses no significant or permanent risk of harm to the research participant.

(Moderate Adverse Event, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The researchers conducted a series of experiments showing that vesicles isolated from four strains of Lactobacillus bacteria interfere with the ability of HIV to infect cells.

(Vesicles released by bacteria may reduce the spread of HIV in human tissue, National Institutes of Health)

In a family of diseases called tauopathies, it is these tau aggregates that interfere with the proper function of brain cells, which can lead to cognitive impairment and eventually dementia.

(Pathogenic tau and cognitive impairment are precipitated by a high-salt diet, National Institutes of Health)

Within mitochondria, mutant SOD1 may interfere with the anti-apoptotic function of Bcl-2, affect mitochondrial import by interfering with the translocation machinery (TOM/TIM), and generate toxic free radicals (ROS) via aberrant superoxide chemistry.

(Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Researchers found dry graphene film seemed to interfere with mosquitos’ ability to sense skin and sweat because they did not land and try to bite.

(Graphene shield shows promise in blocking mosquito bites, National Institutes of Health)

An agent that inhibits metastasis by interfering with the binding of tumor cells to each other or to endothelial cells.

(Anti-Adhesion Agent, NCI Thesaurus)