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Synonyms for manipulate
məˈnɪp yəˌleɪtma·nip·u·late
This thesaurus page includes all potential synonyms, words with the same meaning and similar terms for the word manipulate.
Princeton's WordNet
manipulate, pull strings, pull wiresverb
influence or control shrewdly or deviously
"He manipulated public opinion in his favor"
Synonyms:
misrepresent, wangle, rig, cook, pull strings, keep in line, fudge, pull wires, falsify, control, fakemanipulateverb
hold something in one's hands and move it
Synonyms:
misrepresent, wangle, rig, cook, pull strings, keep in line, fudge, pull wires, falsify, control, fakefudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresentverb
tamper, with the purpose of deception
"Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"
Synonyms:
warp, belie, circumvent, evade, ready, prepare, sidestep, cook, pull wires, fix, forge, manage, make, parry, dodge, finagle, fake, duck, alter, control, hedge, bullshit, put off, bull, talk through one's hat, falsify, distort, garble, counterfeit, pull strings, elude, interpolate, wangle, keep in line, fudge, misrepresent, rig, skirtrig, manipulateverb
manipulate in a fraudulent manner
"rig prices"
Synonyms:
misrepresent, set, wangle, rig, cook, pull strings, keep in line, fudge, pull wires, falsify, set up, control, fakemanipulate, keep in line, controlverb
control (others or oneself) or influence skillfully, usually to one's advantage
"She manipulates her boss"; "She is a very controlling mother and doesn't let her children grow up"; "The teacher knew how to keep the class in line"; "she keeps in line"
Synonyms:
assure, misrepresent, see, fudge, hold in, fake, pull strings, cook, control, moderate, hold, ensure, wangle, check, pull wires, keep in line, falsify, ascertain, operate, master, rig, see to it, command, insure, curb, verify, containmanipulateverb
treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed
Synonyms:
misrepresent, wangle, rig, cook, pull strings, keep in line, fudge, pull wires, falsify, control, fake
Editors Contribution
beguile
beguile second meaning is cheating
Submitted by rinat on September 10, 2019
Dictionary of English Synonymes
manipulateverb
Synonyms:
work or operate with the hands
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "manipulate":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#64 | see | |
#132 | make | |
#189 | set | |
#272 | check | |
#333 | control | |
#1275 | hold | |
#1292 | ready | |
#1314 | master | |
#1362 | command | |
#1372 | ensure | |
#2217 | manage | |
#2464 | fix | |
#2465 | handle | |
#2700 | contain | |
#3139 | cook | |
#3552 | prepare | |
#3943 | operate | |
#4626 | dodge | |
#4675 | verify | |
#5420 | moderate | |
#6069 | bull | |
#6134 | fake | |
#6185 | skirt | |
#7123 | duck | |
#7231 | assure | |
#7413 | alter | |
#9768 | forge | |
#10044 | insure | |
#11515 | hedge | |
#12551 | curb | |
#14311 | rig | |
#15115 | manipulate | |
#15716 | warp | |
#17688 | fudge | |
#18355 | bullshit | |
#19866 | ascertain | |
#21866 | parry | |
#25316 | counterfeit | |
#32665 | distort | |
#33891 | circumvent | |
#35107 | sidestep | |
#35306 | evade | |
#57345 | misrepresent | |
#64306 | elude | |
#64838 | falsify | |
#65281 | interpolate | |
#97537 | belie | |
#201767 | finagle | |
#203360 | garble | |
#308012 | wangle |
How to use manipulate in a sentence?
The IRA has repeatedly used complex networks of inauthentic accounts to deceive and manipulate people who use Facebook, including before, during and after the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. It’s why we don’t want them on Facebook, we removed this latest set of Pages and accounts solely because they were controlled by the IRA — not based on the content.
No child should be a pawn in a scheme to manipulate our immigration system.
If it does work, his body locks up. I don't know how that helps, if you look at video and how close, she's right inside the open door, at the edge, and those probes won't spread far enough to achieve neuromuscular incapacitation and that's the goal. If you achieved it, he'd be locked up in that seat. It's hard to manipulate him. It's confusing, tactically, what the end goal was with the Taser.
He’s got six, seven, eight pitches, and he can change speed on all of them, it’s special what he can do and how he can manipulate it. ... You never know what you’re going to get. It’s the kitchen sink coming at you all the time.
...nobody has the right to manipulate anybody or to impress anybody with his stronger personality, not even for the other's imagined good, for nobody can know what that good is. This is courtesy rather than callousness, for the other's dignity is thus acknowledged, or the dignity of his grief is respected. If and when he is ready, the other will of himself reach out for consolation and feel free to ask for a hand to point out the way.
Translations for manipulate
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- يتحكمArabic
- manipularCatalan, Valencian
- manipulierenGerman
- manipularSpanish
- بامهارت انجام دادن ،اداره کردن ،دستکارى کردنPersian
- manipuloida, käsitellä, liikutella, liikuttaaFinnish
- manipulerFrench
- cuir car ann an, cuir tionndadh ann anScottish Gaelic
- हेरफेरHindi
- manipulálHungarian
- memanipulasi, memanipulirIndonesian
- manipolare, plagiareItalian
- manipuleren, beïnvloedenDutch
- manipulereNorwegian
- manipulowaćPolish
- manipularPortuguese
- manipulaRomanian
- управлять, воздействовать, влиять, манипулироватьRussian
- manipuleraSwedish
- கையாளTamil
- จัดการThai
- idareTurkish
- vận dụngVietnamese
- 操作Chinese
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