Tampered
[tæmpəd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Tamper
Edited by Enrico
Examples
- I never detected a sign of the medicine bottles being tampered with, I never saw Mrs. Rubelle say a word to the Count, or the Count to her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He had nearly fainted when we found that the papers had undoubtedly been tampered with. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- And he may have tampered with the patient--he may have disobeyed my orders. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I cannot allow the examination to be held if one of the papers has been tampered with. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He put this jumper slyly in contact with the wires--and just four lamps went out on the section he tampered with. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The dead man's papers had not been tampered with. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- About 1815 inventors commenced to produce devices to show with certainty if a lock had been tampered with. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The bandages were displaced or tampered with; great loss of blood followed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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