manipulating
- 1Present participle and gerund of manipulate.
The technician was manipulating the controls to fine-tune the signal.
Manipulating the figures to fit the desired conclusion counts as fraud.
Note
One -ing form carries every meaning of manipulate, from the neutral to the damning. Skilled handling, like a technician working controls or a therapist working a stiff joint, sits beside tampering and covert control of people. So the object usually sets the tone: manipulating a sample is skill, while manipulating voters is an accusation. Used with no object at all, for hands busy at an experiment, the form now sounds dated.
manipulating is a form of manipulate
manipulate, verb: To influence or control someone secretly for one's own advantage, especially in a way the person does not realize. Full entry
- Forms
- manipulatemanipulates he/she/itmanipulating -ing formmanipulated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- manipulate → manipulating: drop the e, add -ing
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