interfere
To get involved in something that is not your business, often making it worse.
interfere in a sentence
- Please don't interfere while I'm trying to fix my bike.
- My little brother likes to interfere with my board game by moving the pieces.
Words that mean something similar
meddle, intrude, disrupt
Careful: interfere is not intervene
Intervene is stepping in to help. Interfere is getting involved where you are not wanted. Read why children mix them up.
More words about behaviour & manners
- intervene: To step in to stop trouble or help sort something out.
- justice: The fair treatment of people, where right is rewarded and wrong is punished.
- juvenile: To do with young people, or behaving in a childish way.
- lax: Not strict or careful enough.
- leeway: Freedom to do things in your own way or make small mistakes.
- lenient: Gentle and not strict when someone breaks a rule.
- liberty: The freedom to live, think and act as you choose.
- lure: To tempt a person or animal into going somewhere.
More words to explore
Sitting the 11+ in Kent, Medway or Buckinghamshire?
Plain-English guides to each test, from the councils’ own pages: Kent Test · Medway Test · Bucks Secondary Transfer Test