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Past tense of interfere

regular verb

The past tense of interfere is interfered. The past participle is also interfered.

Forms of interfere

Base form (V1)interfere /ˌɪn.tɚˈfɪɚ/
Past tense (V2)interfered /ˌɪntɚˈfɪɹd/
Past participle (V3)interfered /ˌɪntɚˈfɪɹd/
Present participleinterfering
Third person singularinterferes

Interfered in a sentence

  • The investigation found the girls had been interfered with.
  • One mazarinade argued incessantly that Mazarin had interfered with France's economy.2002, Todd P. Olson, Poussin and France, page 83. From the entry mazarinade
  • The Dachen Islands, two hundred miles south of Shanghai, interfered with trade to China's most important port.1989, Harvey W. Nelsen, “The View from Beijing: 1950-1960”, in Power and Insecurity: Beijing, Moscow, and Washington, 1949–1988, Lynne…. From the entry Mazu
  • And so nature was not interfered with in the middle of the rainy season.1958 June 17, Chinua Achebe, chapter 4, in Things Fall Apart, London: Heinemann, →OCLC. From the entry wetness
  • Francis never interfered when Lillian got a head of steam.2005, Patrick Astre, The Artifact, Salvo Press, →ISBN, page 36. From the entry good-cop-bad-cop

Meaning of interfere

  1. verb To get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance.
  2. verb Of waves, to be correlated with each other when overlapped or superposed.
  3. verb Of a horse, to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle by using the legs.

Full definition of interfere

Questions about the past tense of interfere

What is the past tense of interfere?
The past tense of interfere is interfered.
What is the past participle of interfere?
The past participle of interfere is interfered.
Is interfere a regular or irregular verb?
Interfere is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: interfere (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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