tamper
IPA: tˈæmpɝ
noun
- A person or thing that tamps.
- A tool used to tamp something down, such as tobacco in a pipe.
- (rail transport) A railway vehicle used to tamp down ballast.
- An envelope of neutron-reflecting material in a nuclear weapon, used to delay the expansion of the reacting material and thus produce a longer-lasting and more energetic explosion.
verb
- (intransitive) To make unauthorized or improper alterations, sometimes causing deliberate damage; to meddle (with something).
- (intransitive) To try to influence someone, usually in an illegal or devious way; to try to deal (with someone).
- (dated) To meddle (with something) in order to corrupt or pervert it.
- (obsolete) To involve oneself (in a plot, scheme, etc.).
- (obsolete) To attempt to practise or administer something (especially medicine) without sufficient knowledge or qualifications.
- (US, CA, in professional sports) To discuss future contracts with a player, against league rules.
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Examples of "tamper" in Sentences
- Don't tamper with medicare part.
- Holiday makers tamper with nature's beauty.
- He has tampered with the text in the article.
- He wants to tamper with the laws of the gods.
- Don't tamper with biometric verification machines.
- Don't tamper with Malton flood protection equipment.
- Did he tamper with the counting of the votes received
- The virus tampers with the computer in a variety of ways.
- I apologise for the discourtesy of tampering with your talk page.
- I take exception to the efforts to tamper with the policy in this way.
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