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  <Lexicon id="oewn" label="Open English Wordnet" language="en" email="english-wordnet@googlegroups.com" license="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" version="2024" url="https://github.com/globalwordnet/english-wordnet">
    <LexicalEntry id="oewn-busy-a">
      <Lemma writtenForm="busy" partOfSpeech="a">
        <Pronunciation>ˈbɪzi</Pronunciation>
      </Lemma>
      <Form writtenForm="busier"/>
      <Form writtenForm="busiest"/>
      <Sense id="oewn-busy-a-01355409-s" synset="oewn-01355409-s" dc:identifier="busy%5:00:00:intrusive:01"/>
    </LexicalEntry>
    <LexicalEntry id="oewn-busybodied-a">
      <Lemma writtenForm="busybodied" partOfSpeech="a"/>
      <Sense id="oewn-busybodied-a-01355409-s" synset="oewn-01355409-s" dc:identifier="busybodied%5:00:00:intrusive:01"/>
    </LexicalEntry>
    <LexicalEntry id="oewn-interfering-a">
      <Lemma writtenForm="interfering" partOfSpeech="a"/>
      <Sense id="oewn-interfering-a-01355409-s" synset="oewn-01355409-s" dc:identifier="interfering%5:00:00:intrusive:01"/>
    </LexicalEntry>
    <LexicalEntry id="oewn-meddlesome-a">
      <Lemma writtenForm="meddlesome" partOfSpeech="a"/>
      <Sense id="oewn-meddlesome-a-01355409-s" synset="oewn-01355409-s" dc:identifier="meddlesome%5:00:00:intrusive:01">
        <SenseRelation relType="derivation" target="oewn-meddlesomeness-n-04845162-n"/>
      </Sense>
    </LexicalEntry>
    <LexicalEntry id="oewn-meddling-a">
      <Lemma writtenForm="meddling" partOfSpeech="a"/>
      <Sense id="oewn-meddling-a-01355409-s" synset="oewn-01355409-s" dc:identifier="meddling%5:00:00:intrusive:01"/>
    </LexicalEntry>
    <LexicalEntry id="oewn-meddling-n">
      <Lemma writtenForm="meddling" partOfSpeech="n"/>
      <Sense id="oewn-meddling-n-00202365-n" synset="oewn-00202365-n" dc:identifier="meddling%1:04:00::">
        <SenseRelation relType="derivation" target="oewn-meddle-v-02544767-v"/>
      </Sense>
    </LexicalEntry>
    <LexicalEntry id="oewn-officious-a">
      <Lemma writtenForm="officious" partOfSpeech="a"/>
      <Sense id="oewn-officious-a-01355409-s" synset="oewn-01355409-s" dc:identifier="officious%5:00:00:intrusive:01">
        <SenseRelation relType="derivation" target="oewn-officiousness-n-04845162-n"/>
      </Sense>
    </LexicalEntry>
    <LexicalEntry id="oewn-tampering-n">
      <Lemma writtenForm="tampering" partOfSpeech="n"/>
      <Sense id="oewn-tampering-n-00202365-n" synset="oewn-00202365-n" dc:identifier="tampering%1:04:00::">
        <SenseRelation relType="derivation" target="oewn-tamper-v-02544767-v"/>
      </Sense>
    </LexicalEntry>
    <Synset id="oewn-00202365-n" ili="i36466" partOfSpeech="n" members="oewn-meddling-n oewn-tampering-n" lexfile="noun.act">
      <Definition language="en">the act of altering something secretly or improperly</Definition>
      <SynsetRelation relType="hypernym" target="oewn-00199979-n"/>
    </Synset>
    <Synset id="oewn-01355409-s" ili="i7365" partOfSpeech="s" members="oewn-interfering-a oewn-meddlesome-a oewn-meddling-a oewn-officious-a oewn-busy-a oewn-busybodied-a" lexfile="adj.all">
      <Definition language="en">intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner</Definition>
      <SynsetRelation relType="similar" target="oewn-01354915-a"/>
      <Example language="en">an interfering old woman</Example>
      <Example language="en">bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself</Example>
      <Example language="en">busy about other people&apos;s business</Example>
    </Synset>
  </Lexicon>
</LexicalResource>