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tamper

DEFINITIONS OF: tamper

1

v play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly

“Someone tampered with the documents on my desk”
Synonyms:
fiddle, monkey
Type of:
manipulate
hold something in one's hands and move it

v intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly

Synonyms:
meddle
Type of:
interfere, interpose, intervene, step in
get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force

n a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)

Synonyms:
tamp, tamping bar
Types:
stemmer
a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge
Type of:
tool
an implement used in the practice of a vocation
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