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intermeddle

[ in-ter-med-l ]

/ ˌɪn tərˈmɛd l /

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verb (used without object), in·ter·med·dled, in·ter·med·dling.

to take part in a matter, especially officiously; meddle.

Origin of intermeddle

1350–1400; inter- + meddle; replacing Middle English entremedlen < Anglo-French entremedler, Old French entremesler

OTHER WORDS FROM intermeddle

in·ter·med·dler, noun

Words nearby intermeddle

interlunation, intermarriage, intermarry, intermaxillary bone, intermaxillary suture, intermeddle, intermedia, intermediacy, intermediary, intermediary nerve, intermediate

Example sentences from the Web for intermeddle

Intercede and interpose are used in a good sense; intermeddle always in a bad sense, and interfere frequently so.

English Synonyms and Antonyms |James Champlin Fernald
Evolution—once a mere germ in the mind—was beginning to press, to encroach, to intermeddle with the mind's other furniture.

Robert Elsmere |Mrs. Humphry Ward
Their heart "knoweth its own bitterness," and as for me, being a stranger and all alien, I "intermeddle not with their joy."

Passages From the English Notebooks, Volume 1 |Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wretched, indeed, is the nation in whose affairs foreign powers are once permitted to intermeddle.

The Writings of Thomas Jefferson |Thomas Jefferson

Do not intermeddle with state affairs;—that care is reserved for me, and those in whom I confide.

Ecce Homo! |Paul Henry Thiry Baron d' Holbach

British Dictionary definitions for intermeddle

intermeddle

/ (ˌɪntəˈmɛdəl) /

verb

(intr) rare another word for meddle

Word Origin for intermeddle

C14 entremedle, from Anglo-Norman entremedler, from Old French; see inter- + meddle