He tampered with the insides of his watch and ruined it.
A friend of the man being tried in court tampered with a witness.
Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". Оригинал: A.Маккей, М.Т.Боткер, Дж.И.Гейтс. 1997.
tamper with — ˈtamper with [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they tamper with he/she/it tampers with present participle tampering with past tense tampered with … Useful english dictionary
tamper with — index adulterate, contaminate, damage, denature, falsify, pervert, suborn, vitiate Burton s Legal Thesaurus … Law dictionary
tamper with — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms tamper with : present tense I/you/we/they tamper with he/she/it tampers with present participle tampering with past tense tampered with past participle tampered with tamper with something to touch something… … English dictionary
tamper with something — ˈtamper with sth derived to make changes to sth without permission, especially in order to damage it Syn: interfere with • Someone had obviously tampered with the brakes of my car. Main entry: ↑tamperderived … Useful english dictionary
tamper with — interfere with (something) without authority or so as to cause damage. → tamper … English new terms dictionary
tamper with — Synonyms and related words: Paul Pry, adulterate, approach, bastardize, bribe, busybody, butt in, buy, buy off, contaminate, cook, corrupt, cut, debase, denaturalize, denature, dilute, doctor, doctor up, fake, fix, fool, fool with, fortify, get… … Moby Thesaurus
tamper with — {v.} 1. To meddle with (something); handle ignorantly or foolishly. * /He tampered with the insides of his watch and ruined it./ 2. To secretly get someone to do or say wrong things, especially by giving him money, or by threatening to hurt him.… … Dictionary of American idioms
tamper with — {v.} 1. To meddle with (something); handle ignorantly or foolishly. * /He tampered with the insides of his watch and ruined it./ 2. To secretly get someone to do or say wrong things, especially by giving him money, or by threatening to hurt him.… … Dictionary of American idioms
tamper with — (Roget s IV) v. Syn. alter, diversify, vary, mess with, mess around with; see also change 1 , destroy 1 … English dictionary for students
ˈtamper with sth — phrasal verb to touch or change something that you should not touch or change, often because you want to spoil it … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
