tinkered in English

verb

1

attempt to repair or improve something in a casual or desultory way, often to no useful effect.

he spent hours tinkering with the car

synonyms: fiddle with, adjust, fix, try to mend, play about with, fool with, futz with, tamper with, interfere with, mess about with, meddle with

verb

fiddle with, adjust, fix, try to mend, play about with, fool with, futz with, tamper with, interfere with, mess about with, meddle with
fiddle
putter, muck about, muck around, mess around, potter, monkey, monkey around

Use "tinkered" in a sentence

1. 23 He tinkered with my old clock.

2. They have tinkered with the geometry of the car's nose.

3. It was even discovered that if the system were tinkered with enough, rectilinear figures could be produced.

4. To redesign those three districts, the judges tinkered with the borders of 10 neighboring districts in August.

5. Lamborghini's increasing wealth allowed him to purchase faster, more expensive cars than the tiny Fiats he had tinkered with during his youth.

6. The first time I made Brownies without my mother was in the late 1960s, using a recipe from Paula Peck, the cookbook writer Over the years, I tinkered with that and a similar …

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