Past tense of tamper
regular verb
The past tense of tamper is tampered. The past participle is also tampered.
Forms of tamper
| Base form (V1) | tamper /ˈtæm.pə(ɹ)/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | tampered |
| Past participle (V3) | tampered |
| Present participle | tampering |
| Third person singular | tampers |
Tampered in a sentence
- The alarm had been tampered with and didn’t go off when it should have.
- The election monitors found that a large number of ballots had been tampered with.
- The area was much too important to the prospective recoveree to be tampered with by mortal man.1996, Dick B., That Amazing Grace: The Role of Clarence and Grace S. in Alcoholics Anonymous, page 47. From the entry recoveree
Meaning of tamper
- noun A tool used to tamp something down, such as tobacco in a pipe.
- noun A railway vehicle used to tamp down ballast.
- noun 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.
Questions about the past tense of tamper
- What is the past tense of tamper?
- The past tense of tamper is tampered.
- What is the past participle of tamper?
- The past participle of tamper is tampered.
- Is tamper a regular or irregular verb?
- Tamper is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: tamper (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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