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intermeddle

[ in-ter-med-l ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used without object)

, in·ter·med·dled, in·ter·med·dling.

intermeddle

/ ˌɪntəˈmɛdəl /

1350–1400; inter- + meddle; replacing Middle English entremedlen < Anglo-French entremedler, Old French entremesler

C14 entremedle, from Anglo-Norman entremedler, from Old French; see inter- + meddle

With it a stranger cannot intermeddle; it is unspeakable and full of glory!

Such is their situation that they cannot intermeddle with the concerns of their husbands, without exciting their jealousy.

Go to, sirrah, I will not have your kindness to intermeddle with her kind; she is meat for your master.

It was urged upon him that he should not intermeddle with foreign institutions or with the political predilections of individuals.

I am, if I may say it with reverence, drawn in I hope by a good Providence to intermeddle on a noble and high argument.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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