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# tamper

verb (tamper, tampers, tampered, tampering)

«tamper» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To tamper with a thing is to meddle with it or change it without permission, often so that it no longer works properly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tamper/#m1)
2. (old use) To tamper with someone is to try to influence them in a secret or bad way. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tamper/#m2)

### In the lessons

in stories a sneak or a thief tampers with a lock, a box or a message; in lessons, «do not tamper with the equipment»

### Examples

- Do not tamper with the lock. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tamper/#x1)
- Someone had tampered with the clock, so it showed the wrong time. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tamper/#x2)
- The fox tried to tamper with the baker's letters. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tamper/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

in stories a sneak or a thief tampers with a lock, a box or a message; in lessons, «do not tamper with the equipment»

### Examples

- No Hebrew book has been so tampered with as tiie Sefer Yetzirah. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tamper/#x1)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «tamper» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tamper/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«tamper» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/tamper.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «tamper» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tamper/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«tamper» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/tamper.html) on Mova free.