tamper with
Idioms-
Interfere or meddle, especially in a harmful way. For example, If you tamper with that lock it's sure to break . [c. 1600]
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Engage in improper or secret dealings, as in He was accused of tampering with the jury . [c. 1600]
Example Sentences
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During a Test against South Africa, Smith admitted Australia's "leadership group" devised a plan to tamper with the ball.
From BBC
The spat followed comments to a gambling website from the 43-year-old last week on how England should make Smith feel "guilty" about his part in the 'Sandpapergate' incident, where Australia's "leadership group" had a plan, carried out by Cameron Bancroft, to tamper with the ball to "get an advantage".
From BBC
There’s no worrying about that now that teams can tamper with the balls again.
The e-passport includes a small chip that stores biometric information, making it harder to forge or tamper with the document.
From BBC
The most plausible answer, of course, is that Luke’s account was finished before their deaths and no one in subsequent decades felt sufficiently bold to tamper with it.
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