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Noun tamper has 1 sense
- tamp, tamper, tamping bar - a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)
--1 is a kind of tool
--1 has particulars: stemmer
Verb tamper has 2 senses
- tamper, fiddle, monkey - play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly; "Someone tampered with the documents on my desk"; "The reporter fiddle with the facts"
--1 is one way to manipulate
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- meddle, tamper - intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly; "Don't meddle in my affairs!"
--2 is one way to intervene, step in, interfere, interpose
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
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