Tamper

/ˈtæm.pə(ɹ)/ · noun

Meaning

A person or thing that tamps..

Definitions by Sense

1. A person or thing that tamps.
2. (intransitive) To make unauthorized or improper alterations, sometimes causing deliberate damage; to meddle (with something).
3. (intransitive) To try to influence someone, usually in an illegal or devious way; to try to deal (with someone).
4. (dated) To meddle (with something) in order to corrupt or pervert it.
5. (obsolete) To involve oneself (in a plot, scheme, etc.).
6. (obsolete) To attempt to practise or administer something (especially medicine) without sufficient knowledge or qualifications.
7. (US, Canada, in professional sports) To discuss future contracts with a player, against league rules.

Example Sentences

tamper detection

The alarm had been tampered with and didn’t go off when it should have.

The election monitors found that a large number of ballots had been tampered with.

Our body is as a well-set clock which keeps good time; if it be too much or indiscreetly tamper’d with, the larum runs out before the houre.

[…] of those Books that passe for authentick who knows what hath bin tamper’d withall, what hath bin raz’d out, what hath bin inserted […]

[…] a small steel pistol was concealed within the purse, the trigger of which was connected with the mounting, and made part of the machinery, so that the weapon would certainly be discharged, and in all probability its contents lodged in the person of any one, who, being unacquainted with the secret, should tamper with the lock which secured his treasure.

These extraordinary capacities of life have been ignored by the practitioners of chemical control who have brought to their task […] no humility before the vast forces with which they tamper.

Ain't no use to fight it / Don't tamper with my destiny / Any way you slice it / I'm in the hands of fate, you see

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• tampers
• tampering
• tampered

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