Last Updated：2025/11/20

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Dictionary quizzes to help you remember the meaning

tamper

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Source Word

tamper

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈtæm.pə(ɹ)/

Verb

intransitive dated obsolete in professional sports

(intransitive) To make unauthorized or improper alterations, sometimes causing deliberate damage; to meddle (with something).

Japanese Meaning

不正に変更する、改ざんする / いじくる、干渉して本来の状態を損なう

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After a series of failures, the lab instructed staff not to tamper, as unauthorized changes could invalidate the results.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

一連の故障を受けて、研究所は職員に、結果を無効にしかねない不正な改ざんを行わないよう指示した。

Sense（1）

(intransitive) To make unauthorized or improper alterations, sometimes causing deliberate damage; to meddle (with something).

tamper detection

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（2）

(intransitive) To try to influence someone, usually in an illegal or devious way; to try to deal (with someone).

Prosecutors argued that he would tamper with witnesses if bail was granted.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（3）

(dated) To meddle (with something) in order to corrupt or pervert it.

[…] No Art used to inflame him, no Coquetry practised to tempt or intice him, and no Prudery or Affectation to tamper with his Passions; but, on the contrary, artless and unpractised in the Wiles of the World, all her Endeavours, and even all her Wishes, tended only to render herself as un-amiable as she could in his Eyes:

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（4）

(obsolete) To involve oneself (in a plot, scheme, etc.).

Sense（5）

(obsolete) To attempt to practise or administer something (especially medicine) without sufficient knowledge or qualifications.

Sense（6）

(in professional sports) To discuss future contracts with a player, against league rules.

tampers

（ present singular third-person ）

tampering

（ participle present ）

tampered

（ participle past ）

tampered

（ past ）

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