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tampertam‧per /ˈtæmpə $ -ər/ verb tamperOrigin: 1500-1600 Probably from temper VERB TABLEtamper |
Present | I, you, we, they | tamper | | he, she, it | tampers | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | tampered | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have tampered | | he, she, it | has tampered | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had tampered | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will tamper | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have tampered |
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Present | I | am tampering | | he, she, it | is tampering | | you, we, they | are tampering | Past | I, he, she, it | was tampering | | you, we, they | were tampering | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been tampering | | he, she, it | has been tampering | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been tampering | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be tampering | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been tampering |
- Both have vigorously denied tampering with the ball.
- Dougal almost felt he was tampering with something he could neither understand nor control.
- History is littered with examples of people tinkering, tampering and then tumbling.
- Orthodoxy, by its very nature, disapproves of tampering with tradition.
- The Budget Resolution contained no tax increase and no tampering with Social Security.
- They're investigating allegations of interference with witnesses and tampering with evidence in a forthcoming trial.
to damage something deliberately► vandalize also vandalise British to deliberately damage buildings, vehicles, or public property: · All the public telephones in the area had been vandalized.· No-one is really sure why people vandalize their own neighbourhoods. ► smash up British to deliberately damage a room or building by breaking windows, furniture etc: smash something up: · They didn't only rob the house, they smashed it up too.smash up something: · About 400 rioters had seized control and were smashing up the jail.smash the place up: · Some of the men got drunk and smashed the place up. ► trash especially American, informal to cause a lot of damage to a thing or place, either deliberately or by using it carelessly: · That kid of yours has trashed my VCR.trash the place spoken (=cause a lot of damage to a room or building): · Dad says it's OK to have the party here, as long as we don't trash the place. ► sabotage to secretly damage machines or equipment so that they cannot be used, especially in order to harm an enemy: · The railway line had been sabotaged by enemy commandos.· Security lighting was sabotaged before the theft took place. ► tamper with to deliberately and illegally damage or change a part of something in order to prevent it from working properly: · Someone had tampered with the lock on my door.· After the accident, police discovered that the car's brakes had been tampered with. ► deface to deliberately spoil the appearance of something by writing on it, spraying paint on it etc: · Several of the gravestones had been defaced and were impossible to read.deface something with something: · The Central Bank issued a statement warning against defacing bank notes with what it called "indecent expressions". ► desecrate to damage a church or other holy place: · The church had been desecrated by vandals.· Most of the Egyptian tombs were desecrated and robbed. tamper with something phrasal verb to touch something or make changes to it without permission, especially in order to deliberately damage it: He noticed that the instruments had been tampered with. I don’t see the point in tampering with a system that’s worked fine so far. |