How to spell interfere

Interfere is spelled I-N-T-E-R-F-E-R-E.

hear itin·ter·fere/,ɪntər'fir/verbPrefixes and work

What it means: Get involved to alter or hinder an action.

In a sentence: Please don't interfere when someone else is speaking.

Same family: interference, interfering, interfered, meddle, intervene. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Interfere” comes from Medieval Latin *interferire*, meaning ‘to strike between’ or ‘hit together.’ That idea of things ‘striking against’ each other is still heard today in phrases like ‘radio interference,’ where different signals clash and disturb each other.

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