meddle

[med·dle]

To meddle is to interfere. You can meddle in someone else's affairs, and you can meddle with someone else's things. Either way, you’re messing with someone else’s stuff and she probably doesn’t like it.

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To mix; to mingle.

Verb
intrude in other people''s affairs or business; interfere unwantedly; "Don''t meddle in my affairs!"


v. i.
To mix; to mingle.

v. i.
To interest or engage one's self; to have to do; -- / a good sense.

v. i.
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.

v. t.
To mix; to mingle.


Meddle

Med"dle` , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Meddled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Meddling .] [OE. medlen to mix, OF. medler, mesler, F. m'88ler, LL. misculare, a dim. fr. L. miscere to mix. See Mix, and cf. Medley, Mellay.] 1. To mix; to mingle. [Obs.]
More to know Did never meddle with my thoughts.
2. To interest or engage one's self; to have to do; -- a good sense. [Obs.] Barrow.
Study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business.
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.
Why shouldst thou meddle to thy hurt?
The civil lawyers . . . have meddled in a matter that belongs not to them.
To meddle and make, to intrude one's self into another person's concerns. [Archaic] Shak. Syn. -- To interpose; interfere; intermeddle.

Meddle

Med"dle, v. t. To mix; to mingle. [Obs.] Chaucer.
"Wine meddled with gall."

To mix; to mingle.

To mix; to mingle.

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Usage Examples

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.

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