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: --
People shouldn't meddle with things they don't understand.
My sister's always meddling in other people's affairs.
They meddled and muddled throughout the winter.
They have meddled in our affairs at every turn, while angrily rejecting the thought that they should conduct their domestic affairs in a civilised and democratic manner.
They meddled not with politics.
The steel industry has suffered too often in the past 10 to 20 years from politicians who have meddled and deceived the steel workers in my constituency and elsewhere.
Our chemical and pharmaceutical industries have been the least meddled with and the least subsidised since the war, yet they remain among our most successful.
All that is at great expense; probably more expensive than if we had not meddled about with interest rates.
They were all due to lawyers, who meddled with war of which they knew nothing.
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.
