| VERB | contact | tamper, fiddle, monkey | play around with or alter or falsify / falsify / falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly |
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| social | tamper, meddle | intrude in other people's affairs or business | |
| NOUN | artifact | tamper, tamp, tamping bar | a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.) |
| Sounds | tae'mper | |
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| Rhymes | asper ... zipper: 139 rhymes with per... | |
| Meaning | A tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.). | |
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| Synonyms | tamp, tamping bar | |
| Narrower | stemmer | A miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge |
| Broader | tool | An implement used in the practice of a vocation |
| Catalan | picó | |
| Verbs | tamp | press down tightly |
| Meaning | play around with or alter or falsify / falsify / falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "Someone tampered with the documents on my desk" | |
| Synonyms | fiddle, monkey | |
| Broader | manipulate | hold something in one's hands and move it |
| Spanish | manipular, trucar | |
| Meaning | intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Synonym | meddle | |
| Broader | intervene, step in, interfere, interpose | Get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat / threat of force |
| Spanish | entrometerse, injerirse, inmiscuirse | |
| Nouns | tampering | the act of altering something secretly or improperly |
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