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interloping

VERB

meddle

Synonyms

STRONG

advance encroach encumber hinder impede impose infringe inquire interfere interpose intrude invade kibitz molest obtrude pry snoop tamper trespass

WEAK

abuse rights barge in break in on busybody butt in chime in come uninvited crash the gates dabble in fool with horn in intermeddle mess around mix in push in put two cents in sidewalk-superintend stick nose in worm in

Antonyms

STRONG

aid assist facilitate forward help leave alone retreat withdraw yield

Example Sentences

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But announced several months after Beyoncé's win, some have seen it as a sign of discontent over her apparent interloping on the country-music space.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026

Sophisticated, experienced firms like Boston Beer Company hardly know what to do about the now-struggling hard-seltzer market, but Happy Dad and its interloping founders are thriving.

From Salon • Nov. 22, 2024

They’re presented as an homage to the 1978 version of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” a movie in which interloping extraterrestrials take the form of flowering pods.

From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2023

Was I having so much trouble dating women because I was just a run-of-the-mill straight interloping fraud, and the real queer community could tell?

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2023

But if, at an interesting point of the conversation, an interloping voice intervened, Bach regarded it as an intruder and let his pupils understand that it could not be admitted.

From Johann Sebastian Bach by Forkel, Johann Nikolaus