intermeddle
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of intermeddle
1350–1400; inter- + meddle; replacing Middle English entremedlen < Anglo-French entremedler, Old French entremesler
Example Sentences
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"I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker, in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle."
From Time Magazine Archive
Is a statute less objection able which authorizes expenditure of Fed eral moneys to induce action in a field in which the United States has no power to intermeddle?
From Time Magazine Archive
I have no design to intermeddle with the government, or to disturb the tranquillity of the United States, nor of its territories, or any part of them.
From Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant by Holt, Mathew Joseph
With such bliss the stranger cannot intermeddle; but mothers who have had a child restored to them from the very borders of the unseen land will know what Mary Gifford felt.
From Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney by Marshall, Emma
Peter was prone to intermeddle with matters beyond his sphere, and to manage other people’s affairs for them.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Dods, Marcus
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