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meddle (verb)

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  • meddle — ► VERB ▪ interfere in something that is not one s concern. DERIVATIVES meddler noun meddlesome adjective. ORIGIN Old French, from Latin miscere to mix …   English terms dictionary

  • meddle — verb (usu. meddle in/with) interfere in something that is not one s concern. Derivatives meddler noun Origin ME (in the sense mix ): from OFr. medler, var. of mesler, based on L. miscere to mix …   English new terms dictionary

  • meddle — verb (I) 1 to deliberately become involved in a situation that does not concern you, or that you do not understand (+ in/with): I wish you wouldn t meddle in my affairs. 2 to touch something carelessly in a way that might break it (+ with): The… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • meddle — verb 1) don t meddle in my affairs Syn: interfere in/with, butt in/into, intrude on/into, intervene in, pry into; informal poke one s nose in, horn in on, muscle in on, snoop into, stick one s oar in, kibitz in 2) someone had been meddling with… …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • meddle — verb /ˈmɛd.əl,ˈmɛdl̩/ a) To have sex. he cut a locke of all their heare, / Which medling with their bloud and earth, he threw / Into the graue [...]. b) To interfere or ; to concern oneself with unduly. And in the same tyme that they medled… …   Wiktionary

  • meddle — [[t]me̱d(ə)l[/t]] meddles, meddling, meddled VERB (disapproval) If you say that someone meddles in something, you are criticizing the fact that they try to influence or change it without being asked. [V in/with n] Already some people are asking… …   English dictionary

  • meddle — UK [ˈmed(ə)l] / US verb [intransitive] Word forms meddle : present tense I/you/we/they meddle he/she/it meddles present participle meddling past tense meddled past participle meddled to become involved in a situation that you have no right to be… …   English dictionary

  • meddle in — phr verb Meddle in is used with these nouns as the object: ↑affair, ↑politics …   Collocations dictionary

  • meddle — intransitive verb (meddled; meddling) Etymology: Middle English medlen, from Anglo French mesler, medler, from Vulgar Latin *misculare, from Latin miscēre to mix more at mix Date: 14th century to interest oneself in what is not one s concern ;… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • meddle — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. tamper; interfere, intrude. See between. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To interfere in others affairs] Syn. intermeddle, interpose, interfere, obtrude, interlope, intervene, pry, snoop, impose oneself,… …   English dictionary for students

  • meddle — med|dle [ medl ] verb intransitive to become involved in a situation that you have no right to, in a way that is annoying ╾ med|dler noun count …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

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