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Definition of Tamper
1. Verb. Play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly. "The reporter fiddle with the facts"
2. Noun. A tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.).
Specialized synonyms: Stemmer
Generic synonyms: Tool
Derivative terms: Tamp, Tamp
3. Verb. Intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly. "Don't meddle in my affairs!"
Generic synonyms: Interfere, Interpose, Intervene, Step In
Derivative terms: Meddler, Meddling, Tampering
Definition of Tamper
1. n. One who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed.
2. v. i. To meddle; to be busy; to try little experiments; as, to tamper with a disease.
Definition of Tamper
1. Noun. A person or thing that tamps. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To alter by making unauthorized changes; to meddle. ¹
3. Verb. (context: in professional sports) To discuss future contracts against league rules with a player. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tamper
1. to interfere in a harmful manner [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Tamper
1. 1. To meddle; to be busy; to try little experiments; as, to tamper with a disease. "'T is dangerous tampering with a muse." (Roscommon) 2. To meddle so as to alter, injure, or vitiate a thing. 3. To deal unfairly; to practice secretly; to use bribery. "Others tampered For Fleetwood, Desborough, and Lambert." (Hudibras) Origin: A corruption of temper. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tamper
Literary usage of Tamper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1822)
"And unto disrepute your office bring ; You lore to tamper with the sinful thing, "
Not," quoth the humbled Jonathan, ..."
2. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"(French, tamper, to guzzle,) Sir Walter obtained his information from Trévoux.
Lampos and Pna'eton. The two steeds of Auro'ra. ..."
3. History of the Discovery and Settlement of the Valley of the Mississippi, by by John Wesley Monette (1848)
"His Agents tamper with the Indians. —Popular Excitement increases.— The
Governor-general issues his Proclamation, 24th of May.—Effects of this Proclamation. ..."
4. Memoirs of Fouché by Joseph Fouché (1903)
"Agents were dispatched from London to tamper with Paris, to tamper even with myself.
Only imagine the English cabinet falling into the snares of our police, ..."
5. Memoir of the Life and Times of General John Lamb: An Officer of the by Isaac Q. Leake (1850)
"British tamper with Mutineers. — Overtures rejected. — Holland and Spain. — Desien
on New York. — Conference at Wethersfield. — Attempt fails. ..."
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