1
[ verb ] play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly

Synonyms

fiddle monkey

Examples

"Someone tampered with the documents on my desk" "The reporter fiddle with the facts"

Used in print

(Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)

When the writer uses material does he tamper with it to improve its commercial effect or does he leave it pure ?

Related terms

manipulate imp

2
[ verb ] intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly

Synonyms

meddle

Examples

"Don't meddle in my affairs!"

Related terms

intervene meddling

3
[ noun ] a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)

Synonyms

tamping_bar tamp

Related terms

tool stemmer tamp_down

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