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tampering

/tam-per/US // ˈtæm pər //UK // (ˈtæmpə) //

篡改,篡改行为,捣乱,窜改

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing: Someone has been tampering with the lock.
    • : to make changes in something, especially in order to falsify: to tamper with official records.
    • : to engage secretly or improperly in something.
    • : to engage in underhand or corrupt dealings, especially in order to influence improperly: Any lawyer who tries to tamper with a jury should be disbarred.

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Examples

  • If you’ve never tampered with Google’s search settings, then you are always getting the results for the country you are currently in.

  • Outraged, Miller threw the sushi away, afraid that someone in the restaurant had spit in or otherwise tampered with his food, he later told colleagues.

  • That firm, Chainalysis, published a blog post detailing how it analyzed the Bitcoin blockchain—a tamper-proof public ledger of transactions—to track the hacker’s activities.

  • I’ve been hearing about voting polls being tampered with, mail being held up to stop voting, and all kinds of other schemes to make sure every vote isn’t counted.

  • Such language is consistent with Square CEO Jack Dorsey’s recent advocacy for digital currencies like Bitcoin, which are controlled by no central authority, and which create a tamper-proof record of transactions.

  • Because of this, tampering with the nature of one has an impact on the nature of the other.

  • But he grew intolerant of clients tampering with his illustrations.

  • Why is he re-introducing the idea of tampering with Medicare in an election year?

  • Her fellow firefighters strung a giant bra across the firehouse ceiling and endangered her life by tampering with her oxygen tank.

  • XXXX is the same officer investigated for witness tampering.

  • Many instruments have had the sound holes spoiled and the surface of the wood inside gored by unskilful tampering with the post.

  • At first Brodrick was more than ever enraged with Prothero for tampering with other people's families like that.

  • Civil law, which is God's ordinance, prohibits tampering with any testament of man.

  • Facts like these show how stubbornly a language resists radical tampering with its phonetic pattern.

  • This was treason—an overt tampering with the allegiance of the followers; and the subordinate was driven forth with contumely.