0 to touch or make changes to something that you should not, usually without enough knowledge of how it works or when you are trying to damage it: --
1 to touch or change something without permission or without enough knowledge of how it works: --
Don’t tamper with the boiler.
2 to touch or make changes to something when you should not, especially when this is illegal: --
The team is doing very well so I resisted the temptation to tamper too much.
There were not many employees who had the opportunity and capability of tampering with the products.
tamper with sth They pleaded guilty to tampering with a government record.
Generally speaking, the ammunition stored in open dumps is not dangerous unless tampered with.
The processed drugs were packed and officials applied a seal on each package to guarantee that its contents were checked and that no one tampered with it.
I have not considered these partially different melodies as ' different', since it would appear that the usual tune was merely tampered with by a local scribe.
The presence of two stanzas with refrain - the defining feature of the couplets drives to the generic essence of the piece, and it was not to be tampered with.
Even if a type is not immediately tampering, an action of that type can have a non-trivial effect on the environment via an immediately tampering type inside.
Product tampering incidents lack some of the dramatic imagery that accompanies the other two hypothetical cases, and can therefore be addressed before the event becomes part of popular culture.
The whole question of tampering with the principle of ritual itself - ritual which guarantees the stability, design, and unity of society - inevitably formed part of my investigation.
You may think that this is obvious, but think again, and look at the tendency of authors to minimise their (small) failures, by tampering with definitions.