tampers

• butts in
• encroaches
• fiddles
• fools
• infringes
• intercedes
• interferes
• interlopes
• intermeddles
• interposes
• intervenes
• intrudes
• invades
• meddles
• messes
• monkeys
• noses
• obtrudes
• plays
• pokes
• pries
• snoops
• trespasses

• avoids
• disregards
• eschews
• ignores
• neglects
• overlooks
• shuns

• noun
  1. A person or thing that tamps.
  2. A tool used to tamp something down, such as tobacco in a pipe.
  3. A railway vehicle used to tamp down ballast.
  4. An envelope of neutron-reflecting material in a nuclear weapon, used to delay the expansion of the reacting material and thus produce a longer-lasting and more energetic explosion.
• verb
  1. To make unauthorized or improper alterations, sometimes causing deliberate damage; to meddle (with something).
  2. To try to influence someone, usually in an illegal or devious way; to try to deal (with someone).
  3. To meddle (with something) in order to corrupt or pervert it.
  4. To involve oneself (in a plot, scheme, etc.).
  5. To attempt to practise or administer something (especially medicine) without sufficient knowledge or qualifications.
  6. (in professional sports) To discuss future contracts with a player, against league rules.

• If someone tampers with the evidence, it could compromise the entire case.
• The alarm will sound if anyone tampers with the control panel.
• She always tampers with the thermostat, even when it’s set perfectly.
• The law prohibits actions where one tampers with official records.
• He often tampers with his phone settings, causing it to malfunction.

obtrudes

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