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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interfere.

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Examples

  • Aspirin interferes with chemical mediators of kallikrein system.

    Aspirin: effects, poisoning 2010

  • Your point about the community keeping your head on writing a bit, even when life interferes, is so true.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Peeps Aren’t Only for Easter 2010

  • Monitoring the way rain interferes with the signals routinely sent between phone masts provides an accurate picture of rainfall over an area, say Israeli researchers.

    Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Live rainfall information 2006

  • Medical Center poll found that more than half of Americans live with chronic or recurrent pain, and for large numbers of Americans, the pain interferes with their daily lives.

    USATODAY.com 2006

  • How 'hot' emotional brain interferes with 'cool' processing

    Not exactly a Valentine's Day song 2006

  • Monitoring the way rain interferes with the signals routinely sent between phone masts provides an accurate picture of rainfall over an area, say Israeli researchers.

    Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Live rainfall information 2006

  • Asked whether one calling interferes with another, the answer was, No.

    Archive 2006-09-01 2006

  • Asked whether one calling interferes with another, the answer was, No.

    read on 2006

  • We are glad to welcome them, though with our present force of teachers -- which lack of means forbids us to increase -- the pressure for instruction in English interferes more or less with that gospel teaching which it is our chief aim and our sufficient reward to impart.

    The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 10, October, 1888 Various

  • He is sure to get a reply by return mail, unless Mephistopheles interferes, which is not unlikely, since Mephistopheles is said to have been much pleased with the manner in which the eminent tragedian has put him before the British and American public.

    A House-Boat on the Styx John Kendrick Bangs 1892

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