meddle+with+something

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• fuck with something — in. to meddle with someone or something. (Taboo. Usually objectionable.) □ Stop fucking with the radio! …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

• meddle — meddle, interfere, intermeddle, tamper are comparable when they mean to busy or concern oneself with someone or something officiously, impertinently, or indiscreetly. One meddles with or in something that is not one s concern or is strictly the… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• meddle — med|dle [ˈmedl] v [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: mesler, medler, from [i]Latin miscere to mix ] 1.) to deliberately try to influence or change a situation that does not concern you, or that you do not understand = ↑interfere meddle in ▪… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• tamper with — {v.} 1. To meddle with (something); handle ignorantly or foolishly. * /He tampered with the insides of his watch and ruined it./ 2. To secretly get someone to do or say wrong things, especially by giving him money, or by threatening to hurt him.… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• tamper with — {v.} 1. To meddle with (something); handle ignorantly or foolishly. * /He tampered with the insides of his watch and ruined it./ 2. To secretly get someone to do or say wrong things, especially by giving him money, or by threatening to hurt him.… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• 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 — 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 in/with — interfere in something that is not one s concern. → meddle …   English new 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 — 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 — /ˈmɛdl / (say medl) verb (i) (meddled, meddling) to concern or busy oneself with or in something without warrant or necessity; interfere. {Middle English medle(n), from Old French medler, from Latin miscēre mix} –meddler, noun …