Definition of Meddle

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Meddle

To mix; to mingle.

To interest or engage one's self; to have to do; -- / a good sense.

To interest or engage one's self unnecessarily or impertinently, to interfere or busy one's self improperly with another's affairs; specifically, to handle or distrub another's property without permission; -- often followed by with or in.

To mix; to mingle.

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Meddle Quotations

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
J. R. R. Tolkien

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
Robert Louis Stevenson

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
Karl Kraus

The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
Irving Babbitt

A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
Irwin Shaw

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.
Marie de France

An offensive war, I believe to be wrong and would therefore have nothing to do with it, having no right to meddle with another man's property, his ox or his ass, his man servant or his maid servant or anything this is his.
Daniel Morgan

It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.
Bulent Ecevit

We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Meddle Translations

meddle in German is einmischen, sich einmischen
meddle in Spanish is entrometerse

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