Meddle
Start
Start verb - To move suddenly and sharply (as in surprise).
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Everything Trying to Kill You: If you meddle with someone's dream too much, all the nice not-real people (and architecture) start getting feral.
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Citizens and critics alike blasted the mayor for trying to meddle in everyone's lifestyles and many have called him the nanny mayor, but Bloomberg openly stated that he doesn't mind being called a nanny if it means getting people to start changing their lifestyles for a better healthy one.
Source: No Such Thing as Bad Publicity
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