tamper
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- tamp derivation
Sense 2 verb
play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly
Someone tampered with the documents on my desk
Types & categories
- manipulate hypernym
Related & opposite
- scamp derivation
Sense 3 verb
intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly
Don't meddle in my affairs!
Types & categories
- intervene hypernym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | tamp |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | tool |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | stemmer |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | scamp |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | manipulate |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | meddling |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | meddler |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | intervene |