Word Finder - tampered

definition

To make unauthorized or improper alterations, sometimes causing deliberate damage; to meddle (with something).

example

The alarm had been tampered with and didn’t go off when it should have.

synonyms

• interfere

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To try to influence someone, usually in an illegal or devious way; to try to deal (with someone).

example

Prosecutors argued that he would tamper with witnesses if bail was granted.

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To meddle (with something) in order to corrupt or pervert it.

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To involve oneself (in a plot, scheme, etc.).

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To attempt to practise or administer something (especially medicine) without sufficient knowledge or qualifications.

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(in professional sports) To discuss future contracts with a player, against league rules.

It has been but slightly tampered with by orthodox hands.

He said Essex Police had tampered with the evidence.

These varieties of plants have not been genetically tampered with or modified for mass production, and are generally well-suited to small organic gardens.

The great thing about Diner Dash 2 is that the formula to the game has not been tampered with.

Unauthorized products may have been tampered with, diluted, or otherwise altered and are not guaranteed by the company.

Fire crews attended to find that an external gas pipe had been deliberately tampered with and escaping gas set alight.

The Durham Report, the charter of constitutional government in the colonies, though drawn up by Charles Buller, embodied the ideas of Wakefield, and the latter was the means of its being given prematurely to the public through The Times, to prevent its being tampered with by the government.

It also created a great impression in England, where it was believed that the Bandieras' correspondence with Mazzini (q.v.) had been tampered with, and that information as to the proposed expedition had been forwarded to the Austrian and Neapolitan governments by the British foreign office; recent publications, however, especially the biography of Sir James Graham, tend to exculpate the British government.

We have clear evidence that Christians tampered with the text of the Gospels to make them better evidence for the Resurrection.

Attempts to immunize children in Indian have met with good results, but Nigeria halted their immunization sites due to rumors that Western donors had tampered with the vaccine to spread HIV and cause sterility in Muslim males.

A drink left on a table could be tampered with while you are not looking.

His heart medication helped him to regulate his heart problems until his pharmacist (seriously new twist in storytelling) tampered with his medication.

Therefore, a watch purchased on the Web from any other retailer may be counterfeit, damaged, tampered with, or contain inferior parts."

If someone tampered with the real bones, we don't want to give them a chance to clean up whatever they might have left behind.

We have more in the Latin translation of Rufinus; but this translation in by no means trustworthy, since Rufinus, assuming that Origen's writings had been tampered with by the heretics, considered himself at liberty to omit or amend heterodox statements.

Morton denies that the contents, the letters, sonnets, and some other papers, had been in any way tampered with.

They rested upon the supposed antiquity of a body of Waldensian literature, which modern criticism has shown to have been tampered with.

With this end assemblies, from which Melville was excluded, and which were otherwise tampered with and terrorized, were got to agree that a number of ministers should sit in parliament, and to surrender the assembly's right of meeting.

Burnet's book naturally aroused much opposition, and there were persistent rumours that the MS. had been unduly tampered with.

What was the purpose of the brazen intruder, and to what end had he tampered with the trappings of such a formidable adversary?

These give assurance that messages have not been tampered with in transit.

As the code is permanently embedded on the chip there is no risk of the code being tampered with.

If the items have been used or otherwise tampered with, we will not accept them for return.

Any sign of plugged holes indicates that the hardware has been, in some way, tampered with.

Your wedding card box should be able to lock so cards cannot be removed or tampered with.

However, if you buy a bottle of water from an unknown source be sure check the seals to make sure they have not been tampered with.

Put the lid back on or close the opening of the milk carton so it doesn't appear to have been tampered with.

They have the tampered files, but do give you a chance to tell your version of the events, which plops you down in the mission.

If in this confession he to some extent tampered with his conscience, there is every reason to believe that his culpable timidity was occasioned, not by personal fear, but by anxiety lest by his death he should hinder instead of promoting the cause of truth.