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 →

2) (old use) To tamper with someone is to try to influence them in a secret or bad way. tree →

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 →
• Someone had tampered with the clock, so it showed the wrong time. tree →
• The fox tried to tamper with the baker's letters. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «tamper» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.