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DIDDLE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination

Example:

He played with the idea of running for the Senate

Synonyms:

diddle; fiddle; play; toy

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "diddle" is one way to...):

manipulate (hold something in one's hands and move it)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "diddle"):

put out; retire (cause to be out on a fielding play)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Deprive of by deceit

Example:

She defrauded the customers who trusted her

Synonyms:

bunco; con; defraud; diddle; goldbrick; hornswoggle; mulct; nobble; rook; scam; short-change; swindle; victimize

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "diddle" is one way to...):

cheat; chisel; rip off (deprive somebody of something by deceit)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "diddle"):

short; short-change (cheat someone by not returning him enough money)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Sentence example:

They diddle him of all his money

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