tamper vs wrangle

tamper

verb
  • To try to influence someone, usually in an illegal or devious way; to try to deal (with someone). 

  • To make unauthorized or improper alterations, sometimes causing deliberate damage; to meddle (with something). 

  • To discuss future contracts with a player, against league rules. 

noun
  • A tool used to tamp something down, such as tobacco in a pipe. 

  • 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. 

  • A railway vehicle used to tamp down ballast. 

  • A person or thing that tamps. 

wrangle

verb
  • To convince or influence (someone) by arguing or contending. 

  • To quarrel angrily and noisily; to bicker. 

  • Followed by out of: to elicit (something) from a person by arguing or bargaining. 

  • To gather and organize (data, facts, information, etc.), especially in a way which requires sentience rather than automated methods alone, as in data wrangling. 

  • To argue, to debate; also (dated), to debate or discuss publicly, especially about a thesis at a university. 

  • To make harsh noises as if quarrelling. 

  • To herd (horses or other livestock). 

  • To manage or supervise (people). 

noun
  • Angry disputation; noisy quarrelling. 

  • An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; an altercation. 

How often have the words tamper and wrangle occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )