Tamper
['tæmpə] or ['tæmpɚ]
Definition
(verb.) play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly; 'Someone tampered with the documents on my desk'; 'The reporter fiddle with the facts'.
Editor: Rudolf--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed.
(n.) An instrument used in tamping; a tamping iron.
(v. i.) To meddle; to be busy; to try little experiments; as, to tamper with a disease.
(v. i.) To meddle so as to alter, injure, or vitiate a thing.
(v. i.) To deal unfairly; to practice secretly; to use bribery.
Checker: Mae
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Meddle, intermeddle, dabble, have to do (in a tentative way).[2]. Intrigue, deal secretly.
Inputed by Bruno
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Meddle, intermeddle, dabble, intrigue, deal_secretly,[See INTERPOSE]
Inputed by Estella
Definition
v.i. to try the temper of: to try little experiments without necessity or authority: to meddle: to practise secretly and unfairly.—n. Tam′perer.
Typist: Paul
Examples
- It would be an ill return to tamper lightly, and without due consideration, with this young lady's affections. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- How dare you, sir,' said Mr Boffin, 'tamper, unknown to me, with this young lady? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- 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.
- It well suits brutes like thee to be tampering and trinketing with hellish cures, and to be giving your labour to the sons of mischief. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Among the latest inventions are electrical connections with the safe, whereby tampering therewith alarms one or more watchmen at a near station. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I won't play any more--you've been tampering with the dice, he shouted. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Someone has been tampering with it, he said. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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