| 单词 | tamper |
| 释义 | tamper (once / 2108 pages) vn To tamper is to alter or mess with something, usually for a bad reason. Tamper also refers to being nosy about someone's business. Don’t tamper with anything; it’s annoying. Tamper involves sticking your nose where it doesn't belong. One kind of tampering involves meddling in other people's affairs. The other kind of tampering has to do with things. If you tamper with financial records, you alter them. Sometimes medicine or food will come with a label that says “tamper proof,” like when a bottle of vitamins is sealed so that you can’t open it until you buy it. WORD FAMILYtamper: tampered, tampering, tampers+/tamp: tamped, tamper, tamping, tamps/tampering: tamperings USAGE EXAMPLESShe faces charges of murder and tampering with evidence. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Clark faces first-degree witness tampering charges, which carry a sentence of up to 20 years. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) He’s charged with felony tampering with evidence and two misdemeanors for careless discharge of a firearm. Washington Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1v play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly Someone tampered with the documents on my desk Syn|Hyper fiddle, monkey manipulate hold something in one's hands and move it 2v intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly Syn|Hyper meddle interfere, interpose, intervene, step in get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force 3n a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.) Syn|Hypo|Hyper tamp, tamping bar stemmer a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge tool an implement used in the practice of a vocation |
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