Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which interferes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who interferes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who, or thing that,
interferes
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Examples
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One of the preferred methods here at The Scientific Activist of dealing with this has been discovering that the interferer lied on his resume, causing him to immediately resign from his position of influence.
Scientific Integrity Editorial Cartoon Contest Nick Anthis 2006
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One of the preferred methods here at The Scientific Activist of dealing with this has been discovering that the interferer lied on his resume, causing him to immediately resign from his position of influence.
Archive 2006-06-01 Nick Anthis 2006
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So, if Anne Widdecombe isn't an interferer, how come she stopped me from deciding how I should control the foxes which kill my sheep?
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He scorned barter by abandoning his property whenever the interferer appeared.
Tropic Days 2003
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That young Mister Fitzgerald, he was an interferer, but he's gone to hell now and hell's the best place for him, seeing as how he was an upstart Irishman with no respect for Sergeants.
Sharpe's Tiger Cornwell, Bernard 1997
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Perry Hale, who played fullback my sophomore year, was a great interferer.
Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball William Hanford Edwards
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In this particular Billy was a striking instance that the arch interferer, the envious marplot of Eden, still has more or less to do with every human consignment to this planet of earth.
Billy Budd 1924
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He had interfered between the couple, and was, I am sorry to say, quite successful as an interferer; but he was a diabolical failure when he attempted to duplicate White's work as lecturer, and the act, after playing a date or two, sank out of sight and I have heard nothing more of her professionally.
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Then as he started to spring at the runner an interferer from behind flung himself on him and sent him sprawling, but not until one arm had caught and checked his man.
The Varmint Owen Johnson 1915
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Suddenly Dink dropped to his knees, the interferer went violently over his back, something struck Stover in the shoulder and his arms closed with the fierce thrill of holding his man.
The Varmint Owen Johnson 1915
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