Meddle

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Meddle \Med"dle`\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Meddled}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Meddling}.] [OE. medlen to mix, OF. medler, mesler, F.
     m[^e]ler, LL. misculare, a dim. fr. L. miscere to mix.
     [root]271. See {Mix}, and cf. {Medley}, {Mellay}.]
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     1. To mix; to mingle. [Obs.]


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              More to know
              Did never meddle with my thoughts.    --Shak.
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     2. To interest or engage one's self; to have to do; -- in a
        good sense. [Obs.] --Barrow.
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              Study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own
              business.                             --Tyndale.
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     3. To interest or engage one's self unnecessarily or
        impertinently, to interfere or busy one's self improperly
        with another's affairs; specifically, to handle or distrub
        another's property without permission; -- often followed
        by with or in.
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              Why shouldst thou meddle to thy hurt? --2 Kings xiv.
                                                    10.
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              The civil lawyers . . . have meddled in a matter
              that belongs not to them.             --Locke.
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     {To meddle and make}, to intrude one's self into another
        person's concerns. [Archaic] --Shak.
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     Syn: To interpose; interfere; intermeddle.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Meddle \Med"dle\, v. t.
     To mix; to mingle. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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           "Wine meddled with gall."                --Wyclif
                                                    (Matt. xxvii.
                                                    34).
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  meddle
       v : intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere
           unwantedly; "Don't meddle in my affairs!" [syn: {tamper}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  73 Moby Thesaurus words for "meddle":
     Paul-Pry, advise, advocate, arrest, bottle up, brief, busybody,
     butt in, check, coach, confer, consult with, counsel, countercheck,
     curb, dam up, damp, dampen, delay, detain, direct, fool, fool with,
     guide, hinder, hold back, hold in check, hold up, horn in, impede,
     inhibit, instruct, intercept, interfere, interlope, intermeddle,
     interrupt, intervene, intrude, invade, keep back, keep in check,
     kibitz, make, meddle with, mess around, mess with, monkey with,
     nose, obtrude, oppose, peek, peep, prescribe, propose, pry,
     recommend, repress, resist, restrain, retard, scotch, set back,
     slacken, snoop, snub, spy, submit, suggest, suppress, tamper,
     tamper with, trespass