interfere with someone

interfere | American Dictionary

interfere
verb[ I ]
us/ˌɪn·tərˈfɪər/
to involve yourself in matters connected with other people without being asked or needed:
Interfering in other people’s arguments is always a mistake.
If something or someone interferes with a situation or a process, it spoils it or prevents its progress:
Even a little noise interferes with my concentration.

Examples of interfere

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The problem is that each player's use indirectly interferes with the other's use and that some arrangement is necessary to reconcile both uses.
But these surfaces are not neutral or passive, they have properties that resist writing - all writing - and interfere with it.
This suggests that the deformation of the lithosphere is strongly controlled by interfering vertical and lateral heterogeneities.
Otherwise, cardioactive medications should not interfere with participation in exercise.
She draws attention to her own studies in the early 1980s, which appear to show that personal definitions interfere with, or complicate, identification.
My perspective on the new journal policy is that, in practice, it is not going to interfere much with scientific communication.
However, there is much interplay between the dynamics of cohorts and age standards which interfere with ageing processes.
Emphasis is placed on small molecules that inhibit protein aggregation, upregulate molecular chaperones, or interfere with downstream toxic pathways.
The electoral processes of these regimes should be clearly set aside from other processes where governments interfered but without exercising such total control.
There the defendant unquestionably chose to interfere in the victim's exclusive domain of choice, and so there is no doubt about his liability to punishment.
Bonds to partisan groups or personal career ambitions may interfere with the political mandate.
Although some nuclei were disrupted, releasing chromatin that spread in the field, this did not interfere with the fractionation yield.
It consists of nine items assessing the level of fatigue and extent with which it interferes with daily activities.
Intervention soon after bereavement may interfere with "natural" grieving processes.
In other words, the dorsal grasping response and the ventral vocal response did not interfere with each other.
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