interfere
verb (used without object)
to come into opposition, as one thing with another, especially with the effect of hampering action or procedure (often followed bywith ).
were interfering
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past progressiveof interfere.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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DHS has claimed that cases where citizens were detained happened only because they were interfering with other arrests or otherwise breaking the law.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2026
The encounter took a turn when police first tried to detain a man, and then several others, who they insisted were interfering with their duties.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2023
TraPac on its website said its terminal would be closed for the first shift because protests were interfering with the entrance gate.
From Reuters ● Jul. 20, 2022
Weirdly, in experiments centuries later in which researchers took care to shine only one photon at a time toward the wall, the interference pattern remained, as if a single particle were interfering with itself.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 8, 2020
It was Mart's hour for a drive, and you were interfering with one of her duties.
From Money Magic A Novel by Hamlin Garland
