Dictionary Entry
manipulate
manipulate is a 10-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To treat, work, or operate with the hands, especially when knowledge and dexterity are required; to manage in hand work; to handle; as, to manipulate scientific apparatus. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 19 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To treat, work, or operate with the hands, especially when knowledge and dexterity are required; to manage in hand work; to handle; as, to manipulate scientific apparatus.
- 2transitive verb
To control the action of, by management; as, to manipulate a convention of delegates; to manipulate the stock market; also, to manage artfully or fraudulently; as, to manipulate accounts, or election returns.
- 3intransitive verb
To use the hands in dexterous operations; to do hand work; specifically, to manage the apparatus or instruments used in scientific work, or in artistic or mechanical processes; also, specifically, to use the hand in mesmeric operations.
- 4verb
treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed
- 5verb
hold something in one's hands and move it
- 6verb
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"
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- 7verb
manipulate in a fraudulent manner
"rig prices"
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- 8verb
influence or control shrewdly or deviously
"He manipulated public opinion in his favor"
- 9verb
tamper, with the purpose of deception
"Fudge the figures"
"cook the books"
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