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noun

  1. The act of obstructing

    intervention, resistance, retardation, impedance, checking, blocking, barring, hampering, clashing, collision, tackling, interception, hindrance, restraint, inhibition, shutting off, clogging, choking, arrest, barricading, thrusting between, interposition; see also opposition 1, restraint 2.

    Antonyms removal*, clearance, releasing.

  2. Taking forcible part in the affairs of others

    meddling, interposition, interruption, prying, trespassing, tampering, intermeddling, advising, kibitzing*, butting in*, horning in*, barging in*, back-seat driving*; see also intrusion.

  3. That which obstructs

    obstruction, check, obstacle; see barrier, impediment 1, restraint 2.

See interference in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II

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