Tampering
['tæmpɚ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tamper
Typist: Pearl
Examples
- 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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