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单词 tampering
释义 ˈtampering, vbl. n.
[f. tamper v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of the verb tamper, in various senses: plotting; meddling, improper interference.
a1625Fletcher Nice Valour v. i, There is no tampering with these Cupids longer.1738Birch Milton M.'s Wks. I. 32 By reason of his continual Studies and the Head-ach,..and his perpetual tampering with Physic, his Eyes had been decaying for twelve Years before.1822W. Irving Braceb. Hall xx, There is something strangely pleasing in these tamperings with the future.a1854H. Reed Lect. Eng. Lit. iv. (1878) 153 It has come down from a remote antiquity, and has..escaped the tampering of modern hands.
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