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 participle | interfering |
| Third person singular | interferes |
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
- verb To get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance.
- verb Of waves, to be correlated with each other when overlapped or superposed.
- verb Of a horse, to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle by using the legs.
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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