diddle
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
deprive of by deceit
He swindled me out of my inheritance
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- victimisation derivation
- scam derivation
- hustle derivation
- swindle derivation
- swindler derivation
Sense 2 verb
manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
She played nervously with her wedding ring
Types & categories
- manipulate hypernym
- put out hyponym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | victimisation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | scam |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | hustle |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | swindle |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | swindler |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | cheat |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | short |
| 2 | also see | Related & opposite | toy with |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | twiddler |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | manipulate |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | put out |