Need another word that means the same as “tamper”? Find 17 synonyms and 30 related words for “tamper” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Tamper” are: fiddle, monkey, meddle, interfere, monkey around, tinker, fiddle about, fiddle around, fool about, fool around, play about, play around, toy, trifle, dabble, tamp, tamping bar
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “tamper” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| tamp | A tool for tamping e g for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc. |
| tamping bar | A tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “tamper” as a verb can have the following definitions:
| dabble | Play in or as if in water, as of small children. Teal dabble in the shallows. |
| fiddle | Play the violin or fiddle. The reporter fiddle with the facts. |
| fiddle about | Play on a violin. |
| fiddle around | Play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly. |
| fool about | Spend frivolously and unwisely. |
| fool around | Make a fool or dupe of. |
| interfere | Of light or other electromagnetic waveforms interact to produce interference. You promised not to interfere. |
| meddle | Interfere in something that is not one’s concern. Don t meddle in my affairs. |
| monkey | Play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly. Then marched the Three who monkeyed our Great and Dead. |
| monkey around | Play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly. |
| play about | Behave carelessly or indifferently. |
| play around | Perform on a certain location. |
| tinker | Work as a tinker or tinkerer. He spent hours tinkering with the car. |
| toy | Eat or drink (something) in an unenthusiastic way. Alan toyed with his glasses. |
| trifle | Act frivolously. Men who trifle with women s affections. |
| affair | An object of a particular type. His time was spent in winding up his affairs. |
| authorities | The organization that is the governing authority of a political unit. The matter was referred to higher authorities. |
| between | In between. Dancing all the dances with little rest between. |
| busybody | A meddling or prying person. Others considered him an interfering busybody. |
| cease | Cease is a noun only in the phrase without cease end. On his retirement the job will cease to exist. |
| curious | Expressing curiosity. A curious stare. |
| disrupt | (of a company or form of technology) cause radical change in (an industry or market) by means of innovation. If an explosion of volcanic steam had formed the crater the blast from below would have disrupted the underlying rock. |
| disruptive | Characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination. Disruptive pupils. |
| dissuade | Persuade (someone) not to take a particular course of action. His friends tried to dissuade him from flying. |
| hinderance | The act of hindering or obstructing or impeding. |
| interfere | Of light or other electromagnetic waveforms interact to produce interference. Light pulses interfere constructively in a fibre to emit a pulse. |
| interference | The combination of two or more electromagnetic waveforms to form a resultant wave in which the displacement is either reinforced or cancelled. Concerns about government interference in church life. |
| interfering | (of a person) tending to interfere in other people’s affairs. Interfering busybodies. |
| interject | Say (something) abruptly, especially as an aside or interruption. She interjected clever remarks. |
| interpose | Exercise or advance (a veto or objection. She interposed herself between the newcomers. |
| interrupt | A signal that temporarily stops the execution of a program so that another procedure can be carried out. Of course Shepherd began but his son interrupted him. |
| interruption | Some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity. A chance to study without interruption. |
| intervene | Be situated between things. The snowy peaks of the Himalayas stood glistening in the far distance high above the wooded mountains that intervened. |
| intervention | Interference by a state in another’s affairs. The purpose of intervention is to prevent unnecessary duplication of lawsuits. |
| intrude | Put oneself deliberately into a place or situation where one is unwelcome or uninvited. To intrude political criteria into military decisions risks reducing efficiency. |
| meddle | Touch or handle (something) without permission. Don t meddle in my affairs. |
| meddlesome | Intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner. Heaven rid him of meddlesome politicians. |
| meddling | Intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner. Bureaucratic meddling. |
| mediator | A negotiator who acts as a link between parties. The government appointed a mediator to assist in finding a resolution to the dispute. |
| monkey | A person who is dominated or controlled by another with reference to the monkey traditionally kept by an organ grinder. Then marched the Three who monkeyed our Great and Dead. |
| negotiator | Someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement. A hostage negotiator. |
| nosy | Pry into something. He flipped through my letters in his nosy way. |
| obstructionist | Someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take. |
| obtrude | Push to thrust outward. I felt unable to obtrude my private sorrow upon anyone. |
| pack | A quantity of fish fruit or other foods packed or canned in a particular season. Every summer they are backpacking in the Rockies. |
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