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/tˈæmpərɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Tamper v. i. (past & past part. tampered; pres. part. tampering)

To meddle; to be busy; to try little experiments; as, to tamper with a disease. "'T is dangerous tampering with a muse."

To meddle so as to alter, injure, or vitiate a thing.

To deal unfairly; to practice secretly; to use bribery. "Others tampered For Fleetwood, Desborough, and Lambert."

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Etymology of 'Tampering'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tampering" Quotes from Famous Books

... burner that had been lighted on the gas range was the "simmerer," and that had only a flame as large around as a dollar, and not strong, but he had not dared to light another. He had a dim remembrance that stoves of some kind sometimes exploded, and he did not want to risk an explosion by tampering with an unknown stove. He felt that a stove and Bobberts both exploding at the same time would have been more than the Fenelbys could have borne. As he stood holding the pan of hot water well away from him the sound of the click of knives and forks on china came to him through ...

— The Cheerful Smugglers • Ellis Parker Butler

... one modern method which has always seemed to me much to be condemned, and that is the habit of changing the end of a story, for fear of alarming the child. This is quite indefensible. In doing this we are tampering with folklore and confusing stages ...

— The Art of the Story-Teller • Marie L. Shedlock

... never accept the altering of the shapes of workers, the tinkering with the hereditary form of their children, the artificial grafting upon our race of revolting and unnecessary form changes. Your whole science is a degeneration of wisdom into evil, tampering with life itself. You are horrors, and ...

— Valley of the Croen • Lee Tarbell

... be that I heard my ear aright? or did you speak of changing the unalterable laws of the United States—tampering with ...

— Sweet Cicely - Or Josiah Allen as a Politician • Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)

... servant was free, and that a lawyer had been consulted on the subject, he was extremely angry, and used very contemptuous language concerning people who tampered with gentlemen's servants. The young Quaker replied, "If thy son were a slave in Algiers, thou wouldst thank me for tampering with him to procure his liberty. But in the present case, I am not obnoxious to the charge thou hast brought; for thy servant came of his own accord to consult me, I merely made him acquainted with his legal rights; and I intend to see that he ...

— Isaac T. Hopper • L. Maria Child

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