manipulating

The word “manipulating” has 5 syllables: ma-nip-u-lat-ing

It's pronounced as /məˈnɪp.jə.leɪ.tɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for manipulating?

In the thesaurus, “manipulating” has 99 synonyms and 13 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for manipulating along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for manipulating

  • accomplishing
  • addressing
  • administering
  • arranging
  • at work
  • beguiling
  • bluffing
  • brewing
  • bringing off
  • captaining
  • carrying off
  • carrying out
  • cheating
  • chiseling
  • chiselling
  • coming to grips with
  • commanding
  • compassing
  • concerting
  • concluding
  • concocting
  • conducting
  • conning
  • conniving
  • contriving
  • controlling
  • cozening
  • deceiving
  • defrauding
  • deluding
  • determining
  • devising
  • directing
  • driving
  • duping
  • engineering
  • executing
  • exploiting
  • fielding
  • finagling
  • finessing
  • finishing
  • fleecing
  • fooling
  • framing
  • fulfilling
  • gerrymandering
  • getting off
  • guiding
  • gulling
  • hacking
  • hammering out
  • handling
  • hatching
  • having a grip on
  • hoaxing
  • hoodwinking
  • hustling
  • intriguing
  • jockeying
  • kidding
  • machinating
  • maintaining
  • managing
  • maneuvering
  • masterminding
  • micromanaging
  • moving
  • negotiating
  • ordering
  • performing
  • playing
  • plotting
  • practicing
  • pulling
  • quarterbacking
  • regulating
  • revolving
  • running
  • scheming
  • serving
  • shanghaiing
  • snowing
  • spinning
  • steering
  • supervising
  • sustaining
  • swindling
  • swinging
  • taking
  • taking in
  • transacting
  • treating
  • tricking
  • turning
  • using
  • wangling
  • wielding
  • working out

Antonyms for manipulating

  • blowing
  • bobbling
  • botching
  • bungling
  • butchering
  • flubbing
  • foozling
  • fumbling
  • lousing up
  • mangling
  • mishandling
  • muffing
  • scamping

Meanings of manipulating

  • verb
    1. To move, arrange or operate something using the hands.
    2. To influence, manage, direct, control or tamper with something.
    3. To handle and move a body part, either as an examination or for a therapeutic purpose.
    4. To influence or control someone in order to achieve a specific purpose, especially one that is unknown to the one being manipulated and beneficial to the manipulator; to use.
    5. To use the hands, especially in scientific experiments.

Example Sentences

  • She was accused of manipulating the evidence to protect her friend.
  • He’s very good at manipulating people to do what he wants.
  • The software is capable of manipulating large datasets efficiently.
  • Manipulating public opinion is a common tactic in politics.
  • They were caught manipulating the stock prices for personal gain.

On this page you'll find 112 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to manipulating, such as: accomplishing, addressing, administering, arranging, at work, beguiling, blowing.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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  • abiding
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  • acquiescing
  • addressing
  • allowing
  • bearing
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  • carrying off
  • carrying out
  • coming to grips with
  • commanding
  • controlling
  • countenancing
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  • enduring
  • engineering
  • fielding
  • finessing
  • getting off
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  • having a grip on
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  • living with
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  • meeting
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  • permitting
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  • respecting
  • running
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  • sticking out
  • stomaching
  • suffering
  • supporting
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  • swallowing
  • sweating out
  • swinging
  • taking
  • tolerating
  • toughing it out
  • treating
  • wearing

lacing

  • KO
  • adulterating
  • alternating
  • amalgamating
  • ambush
  • annihilation
  • aromatizing
  • assailing
  • assaulting
  • assimilating
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  • birching
  • blackjacking
  • blending
  • blow
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  • boxing
  • braid
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  • break
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  • buffeting
  • bungee cord
  • bunging up
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  • cable
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  • clouting
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  • collapse
  • combining
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  • conquest
  • contaminating
  • cord
  • cornrow
  • corrupting
  • count
  • counterfeiting
  • cowhiding
  • cracking
  • cudgeling
  • cudgelling
  • cuffing
  • currying
  • cutting
  • debacle
  • debasing
  • defeasance
  • defiling
  • degrading
  • destruction
  • diluting
  • dirtying
  • discomfiture
  • doctoring
  • doing
  • downthrow
  • dreadlock
  • drubbing
  • embarrassment
  • embodying
  • enhancing
  • enlacing
  • enriching
  • entwining
  • envenoming
  • extending
  • extermination
  • failure
  • faking
  • fall
  • falsifying
  • fibbing
  • flagellating
  • flavoring
  • flogging
  • fouling
  • fudging
  • fusing
  • fustigating
  • goring
  • guy
  • halyard
  • hammering
  • hiding
  • hitting
  • horsewhipping
  • implicating
  • incorporating
  • infecting
  • inserting
  • insuccess
  • integrating
  • interlacing
  • intermingling
  • interspersing
  • intertwining
  • intertwisting
  • interweaving
  • inweaving
  • joining
  • juxtaposing
  • killing
  • knocking
  • lace
  • lacerating
  • lambasting
  • lamming
  • lanyard
  • lashing
  • lathering
  • laying on
  • leathering
  • licking
  • line
  • linking
  • loading
  • loss
  • maiming
  • mangling
  • manipulating
  • massacre
  • mastery
  • mauling
  • merging
  • mingling
  • misrepresenting
  • mixing
  • moderating
  • mutilating
  • nonsuccess
  • overthrow
  • paddling
  • pasting
  • pelting
  • peppering
  • perfuming
  • pigtail
  • pistol-whipping
  • plait
  • plaiting
  • plat
  • platting
  • pleaching
  • plying
  • poisoning
  • polluting
  • pommeling
  • pommelling
  • pounding
  • pummeling
  • pummelling
  • punching
  • punching out
  • qualifying
  • queue
  • raiding
  • rawhiding
  • rebuff
  • repulse
  • reverse
  • rickrack
  • ricrac
  • rope
  • rout
  • ruin
  • rushing
  • salting
  • saucing
  • savoring
  • savouring
  • scalping
  • scourging
  • seasoning
  • setback
  • shellacking
  • slamming
  • slapping
  • slating
  • slaughter
  • slogging
  • smacking
  • smashing
  • socking
  • soiling
  • sophisticating
  • spanking
  • spicing
  • spiking
  • spoiling
  • stay
  • storming
  • strapping
  • string
  • stripe
  • subjugation
  • sullying
  • swatting
  • swiping
  • switching
  • tainting
  • tanning
  • tempering
  • thinning
  • thrashing
  • threading
  • threshing
  • thumping
  • thwacking
  • trap
  • trashing
  • trimming
  • triumph
  • tromping
  • trouncing
  • twisting
  • vanquishment
  • walloping
  • watering down
  • waxing
  • weakening
  • weaving
  • whacking
  • whaling
  • whamming
  • whapping
  • whipcord
  • whipping
  • whitewashing
  • whomping
  • whopping
  • whupping
  • wire
  • working over
  • wounding
  • wreathing
  • writhing

machinating

faking

  • act
  • acting
  • ad-libbing
  • adulterating
  • affectation
  • affecting
  • appearance
  • artifice
  • assuming
  • beard
  • blind
  • bluffing
  • bogus
  • camouflage
  • camouflaging
  • carbon
  • carbon copy
  • charade
  • cheat
  • claim
  • cloak
  • coining
  • color
  • coloring
  • concealing
  • concealment
  • concocting
  • contriving
  • copy
  • costume
  • counterfeit
  • counterfeiting
  • cover
  • cover-up
  • coverup
  • cribbing
  • deceit
  • deception
  • deceptive marking
  • dekeing
  • devising
  • disguise
  • disguising
  • display
  • dissembling
  • dissimulating
  • dissimulation
  • doctoring
  • dodging
  • double-dealing
  • dress
  • dumb act
  • duplicating
  • evading
  • evasion
  • excuse
  • extemporizing
  • fabricating
  • fabrication
  • facade
  • face
  • fake
  • fakery
  • faking out
  • false appearance
  • false front
  • falsification
  • feigning
  • feinting
  • fig leaf
  • forging
  • fraudulence
  • front
  • fudging
  • gag
  • getup
  • guise
  • hatching
  • illusion
  • imitating
  • imitation
  • impersonating
  • imposition
  • imposture
  • improvising
  • insincerity
  • inventing
  • invention
  • juggling
  • juking
  • letting on
  • lookalike
  • make believe
  • making believe
  • making up
  • malingering
  • manipulating
  • manufacturing
  • mask
  • masking
  • masquerade
  • masquerading
  • mimicry
  • misrepresentation
  • misstatement
  • ostentation
  • pageant
  • paint
  • pen name
  • phony
  • phonying
  • plagiarizing
  • plain brown wrapper
  • playacting
  • playing
  • posing
  • posturing
  • pretending
  • pretense
  • pretension
  • pretentiousness
  • pretext
  • professing
  • protective coloring
  • pseudo
  • pseudonym
  • pump-faking
  • put on
  • putting on
  • red herring
  • reduplicating
  • replicating
  • reproducing
  • routine
  • ruse
  • schtick
  • screen
  • semblance
  • shade
  • sham
  • shamming
  • shroud
  • shuffling
  • sidestepping
  • simulating
  • simulation
  • slipping
  • smokescreen
  • stall
  • stunt
  • stutter-stepping
  • subterfuge
  • trickery
  • twin
  • veil
  • veneer
  • wile
  • workalike

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