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manipulate English

Meaning manipulate meaning

What does manipulate mean?
Definitions in simple English

manipulate Verb

— When you manipulate something, you operate or control it, usually with your hands. Humans have the ability to manipulate words, ideas, and tools.

manipulate

— verb influence or control shrewdly or deviously He manipulated public opinion in his favor — verb hold something in one's hands and move it — verb (= keep in line, control) 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 — verb treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed — verb (= rig) manipulate in a fraudulent manner rig prices — verb (= fudge, falsify, cook) tamper, with the purpose of deception Fudge the figures cook the books falsify the data

Synonyms manipulate synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as manipulate?

manipulate English » English

handle operate use wield wangle pull strings employ rig maneuver manage finagle work twist run pull wires plot misrepresent make use machinate keep in line juggle fudge falsify fake cook control contrive brainwash work through work at wheedle utilize turn trick treat sway set up process prevaricate ply plow perform the puppet operational work operation operating navigate misquote manoeuvre manipulation insinuate

Topics manipulate topics

What do people use manipulate to talk about?
Language and thought Want Influence

Control
Social behavior Behavior Do good to Altruistic, selfless

Use a person
Work and occupation Work Method

Use
Physical actions Move something

Handle something

  • What general words refer to using the hands to do something to an object?
    handle manipulate

Conjugation manipulate conjugation

How do you conjugate manipulate?

manipulate · verb

Examples manipulate examples

How do I use manipulate in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Don't try to manipulate me.
He tried to manipulate me.
Are you trying to manipulate me?
They think they can manipulate us.
Don't try to manipulate us.
I don't like people who manipulate others.

Movie subtitles

To control the winning number, pay off on racetrack bets and manipulate the totals.
We must wipe out those we have ignorantly elected and those who manipulate this diseased officialdom behind locked doors.
It was from one of them Chicago sporting firms. explaining how to manipulate trick playing cards.
Because my daughter is alive in my brain from microsecond to microsecond..while I manipulate.
And you say all you did was manipulate the papaya cream?
If you guys are trying to manipulate us, you can throw this whole deal out.
It means that I know how to manipulate, Madam.
I can manipulate tennis rackets, golf clubs, racing cars, flat irons.
I can manipulate all sorts of things.
Then a metagenetic programme to manipulate the coding.
I do not manipulate them.
They use my hands to manipulate themselves and to present your destiny.
Of course, the drug made it easier to manipulate you. into the proper positions and attitudes.
Such a man could manipulate key industries, stocks, and even nations.
A Blessed who can manipulate machines at will, huh?
Tell me now, do you have the power to manipulate time?
We must wipe out Those we have ignorantly elected and Those who manipulate This diseased officialdom behind locked doors.
Because my daughter is alive in my brain from microsecond to microsecond while I manipulate.
Well, we have to manipulate your wrist, set your hand in plaster of Paris.
Such a man could manipulate key industries, stocks and even nations, and in so doing, change what must be.
Men who wear a mustache are obliged to manipulate the napkin in a vigorous manner. Miss Edwina?
I want to manipulate him.
In all the ways that I can manipulate people.
The candelabra was moved. I don't know, probably with strings. and she was far away, and it was easy for her to manipulate it.
But the women's bodies developed a glandular secretion, enabling them to survive and to manipulate certain areas of the males' brains, influence their emotional senses.
Did you think you could manipulate me?
Did you king order you here to manipulate us on his behalf?
The only way to manipulate his dreams is to get into them.
I mean, it's easy to manipulate men. Right?
But still I won't let you manipulate me.
Who's trying to manipulate you?
So, if I manipulate the valve, would the rest of you squeeze out as much of the air as you can?
Don't try and manipulate me, Blake.
It's not clear at all. You can't manipulate me.
They manipulate the threads with modified limbs, the spinnerets.
Now perhaps you will tell me how to manipulate the controls.

News and current affairs

Yeltsin failed to consolidate political support for other reasons as well, the most important being his unwillingness (or inability) to forcefully manipulate the media.
Before that, the Kremlin had little idea about how to manipulate the new media outlets that Russia's infant democracy had produced.
Regional administrations also possess their own instruments of obstruction, including propaganda outlets in the regional media, as well as the ability to manipulate ballot papers.
Whatever short-term temptations it faces - to manipulate its search results, use private information, or throw its weight around - Google, it is clear, could lose a lot by succumbing to them in a world where its every move is watched.
Critics scoff that local Communist Party officials manipulate these elections.
Applied to nutrition, nutrigenomics will allow us to understand, and perhaps more importantly, to manipulate our individual response to existing foods so as to benefit our health.
Since World War II, most British governments tried to manipulate the economy for short-term party advantage, usually with disastrous long-term results.
They will not regard meeting people where they are as a way to manipulate them, but as an opportunity to hear what they are saying.
How did he manipulate Sunni-Shia relations, or manage the complexities of Iraq's tribal system, so well?
Poverty may not cause Islamic terrorism, but Islamic terrorists manipulate poverty to their advantage.
And cigarette makers have learned how to manipulate the properties of their product to make it maximally addictive.
But you can manipulate their understanding of it: who are the authors of growth, the Khodorkovskys or the Putins?
Unfortunately, these models tend to be difficult to manipulate, estimate, or interpret.
Such atrophy of critical thinking and unprecedented information naivete make it possible for a politically and financially motivated press to manipulate a good half of the voters.
European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet would never allow this to happen to the ECB - he manipulates markets; markets don't manipulate him.
Long before the emergence of the sub-prime mortgage problem, Citigroup was damaged by the behavior of its London traders, who tried to manipulate the European government bond market, and by its Tokyo traders.
They have a propensity to violate or manipulate international law when it is in their interest to do so.
They obtained new knowledge of how to manipulate and intervene in natural processes.
The result could be a new round of efforts by China to manipulate regional suspicion - or worse.
In all of these cases, QE essentially has been an aggressive effort to manipulate asset prices.
Countries that repeatedly ignore recommendations for reducing excessive deficits, and those that manipulate official statistics, should have their EU funds frozen and their voting rights suspended.
Before the crisis struck in 1998 he put in place measures giving him room to manipulate liquidity and interest rates.
Given that balance-sheet accounting is conducted according to a curious mix of nominal and market values, it can be opaque and easy to manipulate.
In such projects, politicians manipulate and buy voters instead of truly representing them.

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