interfere
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
come between so as to be hindrance or obstacle
Your talking interferes with my work!
Types & categories
- hinder hypernym
Related & opposite
- interference derivation
Sense 2 verb
get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force
Why did the U.S. not intervene earlier in WW II?
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- intervention derivation
- interference derivation
- intervenor derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | interference |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | hinder |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | intervention |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | interference |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | intervenor |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | interact |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | meddle |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | interlope |