0 past simple and past participle of meddle
1 to try to change or have an influence on things that are not your responsibility, especially by criticizing in a damaging or annoying way:
My sister's always meddling in other people's affairs.
People shouldn't meddle with things they don't understand.
The government continuously meddled in judicial enquiries.
They feel that art colleges are being meddled with by those who do not understand them.
That has not happened because politicians have meddled in order to create the monopoly that has held down the price.
Then when you have meddled once there is nothing to stop you meddling again.
We will not know that until we know whether the criteria are being fiddled with and meddled with.
Representatives of charitable organisations took this-work up, and they not only meddled unnecessarily, but they muddled most severely.
They have meddled with coal and with railways, and disaster has resulted.
The only result of such an authority would be that it meddled in many local matters in an attempt to find a role for itself.
