| tamper | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. tamp, tamper, tamping bar | a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.). |
| ~ stemmer | a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge. |
| ~ tool | an implement used in the practice of a vocation. |
| v. (contact) | 2. fiddle, monkey, tamper | play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly.; "Someone tampered with the documents on my desk"; "The reporter fiddle with the facts" |
| ~ manipulate | hold something in one's hands and move it. |
| v. (social) | 3. meddle, tamper | intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly.; "Don't meddle in my affairs!" |
| ~ intervene, step in, interfere, interpose | get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force.; "Why did the U.S. not intervene earlier in WW II?" |
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