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Manipulate

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.

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Cheat 76% connected

An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.

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Chisel 76% connected

A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a m…

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Handle 76% connected

To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.

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Influence 76% connected

A flowing in or upon; influx.

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Interact 76% connected

A short act or piece between others, as in a play; an interlude; hence, intermediate employment or time.

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Palm 76% connected

The inner and somewhat concave part of the hand between the bases of the fingers and the wrist.

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Price 76% connected

The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or…

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Treat 76% connected

To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

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Work 76% connected

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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Manner of action 22

Control 76% connected

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

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Diddle 76% connected

To totter, as a child in walking.

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Fiddle 76% connected

A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.

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Handle 76% connected

To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.

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Ingratiate 76% connected

To introduce or commend to the favor of another; to bring into favor; to insinuate; -- used reflexively, and followed by with before the person whose…

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Juggle 76% connected

To play tricks by sleight of hand; to cause amusement and sport by tricks of skill; to conjure.

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Knead 76% connected

To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; esp., to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, as the mater…

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Manage 76% connected

The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See Manege.

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Massage 76% connected

A rubbing or kneading of the body, especially when performed as a hygienic or remedial measure.

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Mix 76% connected

To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of the parts of, as of two or more substances with each other, or of one substance with others; to unite or b…

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Monkey 76% connected

In the most general sense, any one of the Quadrumana, including apes, baboons, and lemurs.

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Mouse 76% connected

Any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the genus Mus and various related genera of the family Muridae. The common house mouse (Mus…

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Operate 76% connected

To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.

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Play 76% connected

To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

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Ruffle 76% connected

To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.

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Shuffle 76% connected

To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.

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Tamper 76% connected

One who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed.

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Tease 76% connected

To comb or card, as wool or flax.

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Toy 76% connected

A plaything for children; a bawble.

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Twiddle 76% connected

To touch lightly, or play with; to tweedle; to twirl; as, to twiddle one's thumbs; to twiddle a watch key.

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Wield 76% connected

To govern; to rule; to keep, or have in charge; also, to possess.

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Work 76% connected

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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Derivationally related 16

Control 74% connected

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

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Control 74% connected

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

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Fake 74% connected

One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

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Fake 74% connected

One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

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Impostor 74% connected

One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender.

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Impostor 74% connected

One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender.

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Manipulation 74% connected

The act or process of manipulating, or the state of being manipulated; the act of handling work by hand; use of the hands, in an artistic or skillful…

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Manipulation 74% connected

The act or process of manipulating, or the state of being manipulated; the act of handling work by hand; use of the hands, in an artistic or skillful…

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Manipulative 74% connected

Of or pertaining to manipulation; performed by manipulation.

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Manipulative 74% connected

Of or pertaining to manipulation; performed by manipulation.

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Restrainer 74% connected

One who, or that which, restrains.

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Restrainer 74% connected

One who, or that which, restrains.

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Rig 74% connected

A ridge.

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Rig 74% connected

A ridge.

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Synonym 7

Control 92% connected

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

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Cook 92% connected

To make the noise of the cuckoo.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Fake 92% connected

One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Falsify 92% connected

To make false; to represent falsely.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Fudge 92% connected

A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt.

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Misrepresent 92% connected

To represent incorrectly (almost always, unfacorably); to give a false erroneous representation of, either maliciously, ignirantly, or carelessly.

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Rig 92% connected

A ridge.

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