Synonyms for manipulate
məˈnɪp yəˌleɪtma·nip·u·late

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1. 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, fake

2. manipulateverb

   hold something in one's hands and move it

   Synonyms:
   misrepresent, wangle, rig, cook, pull strings, keep in line, fudge, pull wires, falsify, control, fake

3. fudge, 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, skirt

4. rig, 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, fake

5. manipulate, 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, contain

6. manipulateverb

   treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed

   Synonyms:
   misrepresent, wangle, rig, cook, pull strings, keep in line, fudge, pull wires, falsify, control, fake

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1. • Cheat
   • Handle
   • Price
   • Treat

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1. beguile

   beguile second meaning is cheating

   Submitted by rinat on September 10, 2019  

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1. manipulateverb

   Synonyms:
   work or operate with the hands

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1. manipulateverb

   Synonyms:
   handle, operate, manage

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1. List of paraphrases for "manipulate":

   handle

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1. Jigar Shah:

   The worst part of this is one German person could manipulate the entire trade apparatus of the United States for his own personal gain.

2. Lorenzo Diaz-Mataix:

   Our results not only show that we are able to artificially manipulate memory, but also that this manipulation is correlated with long-lasting changes in the brain, basic findings like this one will potentially help to understand and treat many psychiatric conditions that share aberrant memory processing.

3. Abhishek Sachdev:

   There are very significant 'get out' clauses and banks are prepared to go to incredible lengths to manipulate it.

4. Walter Lippmann:

   Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

5. George Davila:

   In the end, the 50 years of the embargo that we have had without having any type of dialogue with the Cuban government has not done anything to try to change the system, but it has allowed the Cuban government to manipulate this status in order to be able to justify its actions.