2007-02-05 08:13:39 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family & Relationships ➔ Marriage & Divorce
The word MANIPULATE has three usages or meanings :
1 If you manipulate people, you skillfully cause them to behave in the way that you want them to. Example : Small children sometimes manipulate grown-ups.
2 If you manipulate a situation, system etc you cause it to develop or operate in the way that you want it to. Example - The job of a manager is to manipulate and control of a complex system.
3 If you manipulate a piece of equipment, you control it in a skillful way. Example - She manipulated the knobs on her tape recorder.
2007-02-09 01:18:17 · answer #1 · answered by asok c 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To manipulate is to use for your uses.
2007-02-05 08:25:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's an instinct passed down from Mothers to Daughters.
2007-02-05 08:56:14 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To control someone and to make them do things that they really would not normally do. It is like you are thinking for them and they cannot think for themselves.... You are using them for your pleasure and you do not care how they think or feel.
2007-02-05 08:41:43 · answer #4 · answered by Lady Hewitt 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
putting you down making fun of somebody think thier better than you
2007-02-09 06:40:27 · answer #5 · answered by sweetgranny06 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To change a outcome to your behalf.
2007-02-05 08:36:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Buy a dictionary.
2007-02-05 09:11:14 · answer #7 · answered by big_mustache 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it means to, trick someone into doing something.
this buddy above is a retard!!!!
2007-02-05 08:24:43 · answer #8 · answered by Jamie Lynn 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it means when you fondle your junk with your fingers.
2007-02-05 08:21:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋