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# tamper

«tamper» in Mova's school dictionary: **to meddle with it or change it without permission, often…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (tamper, tampers, tampered, tampering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To tamper with a thing is to meddle with it or change it without permission, often so that it no longer works properly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tamper/#m1)

2) (old use) To tamper with someone is to try to influence them in a secret or bad way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tamper/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a sneak or a thief tampers with a lock, a box or a message; in lessons, «do not tamper with the equipment»

### examples

- Do not tamper with the lock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tamper/#x1)
- Someone had tampered with the clock, so it showed the wrong time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tamper/#x2)
- The fox tried to tamper with the baker's letters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tamper/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tamper» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tamper/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.