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manipuleren — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • manipulate verb To handle, adjust, or operate something skillfully with the hands.
  • massage noun The act of rubbing or kneading someone's body to relax muscles or relieve tension.
  • tamper verb To interfere with something in an unauthorized or harmful way.

Senses

manipuleren is used for these senses in English:

  • manipulate (transitive) To influence, manage, direct, control or tamper with something
  • manipulate (transitive, medicine) To handle and move a body part, either as an examination or for a therapeutic purpose
  • massage (transitive) To manipulate (data, a document etc.) to make it more presentable or more convenient to work with.
  • tamper (intransitive) To make unauthorized or improper alterations, sometimes causing deliberate damage; to meddle (with something).

manipulate — full definition

  1. verb To handle, adjust, or operate something skillfully with the hands.
  2. verb To influence or control someone unfairly, often through deception, for one's own benefit.

massage — full definition

  1. noun The act of rubbing or kneading someone's body to relax muscles or relieve tension.
  2. verb To rub and knead someone's body, or a body part, to relax or soothe it.
  3. verb To adjust data or figures to make them look more favourable, sometimes dishonestly.

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