Synonyms of the word

fiddle

• n. (music) Any of various bowed string instruments, often used to refer to a violin when played in any of…
• n. A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with leaves shaped like the musical instrument.
• n. An adjustment intended to cover up a basic flaw.
• n. A fraud; a scam.
• n. (nautical) On board a ship or boat, a rail or batten around the edge of a table or stove to prevent objects…
• v. To play aimlessly.
• v. To adjust in order to cover a basic flaw or fraud etc.
• v. (music) To play traditional tunes on a violin in a non-classical style.
• v. To touch or fidget with something in a restless or nervous way, or tinker with something in an attempt…

avoid

• v. (transitive) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor not to meet; to shun; to abstain from.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To make empty; to clear.
• v. (transitive, now law) To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
• v. (transitive, law) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To emit or throw out; to void.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To get rid of.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To become void or vacant.

bushel

• n. A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.
• n. A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
• n. A quantity that fills a bushel measure.
• n. (colloquial) A large indefinite quantity.
• n. (Britain) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel. In the United States it is called a box.
• v. (US, tailoring, transitive, intransitive) To mend or repair clothes.

defalcate

• v. (transitive) To misappropriate funds; to embezzle.
• v. (transitive) To cut off; to take away or deduct a part of (money, rents, income, etc.).

diddle

• n. (music) In percussion, two consecutive notes played by the same hand (either RR or LL), similar to the…
• n. (slang, childish) The penis.
• v. (transitive) to cheat; to swindle.
• v. (transitive) to have sex with.
• v. (transitive) to masturbate (especially of women).
• v. (transitive) to waste time.
• v. (intransitive) To totter, like a child learning to walk; to daddle.

doctor

• n. A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick. The…
• n. A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees…
• n. A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats animals.
• n. A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
• n. (obsolete) A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.
• n. (dated) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.
• n. A fish, the friar skate.
• v. (transitive) To act as a medical doctor to.
• v. (intransitive, humorous) To act as a medical doctor.
• v. (transitive) To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
• v. (transitive) To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or…
• v. (transitive) To genetically alter an extant species.
• v. (transitive) To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.

embezzle

• v. (law, business) To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money…

fix

• n. A repair or corrective action.
• n. A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma.
• n. (informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
• n. A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game,…
• n. A determination of location.
• n. (US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
• v. (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
• v. (transitive) To mend, to repair.
• v. (transitive, informal) To prepare (food).
• v. (transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular…
• v. (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
• v. (transitive, mathematics, sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
• v. (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
• v. (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will…
• v. (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
• v. (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
• v. (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal;…

goldbrick

• n. A gold brick, especially one that is fraudulent or nonexistent; (figuratively) a swindle, a con.
• n. (US slang, dated) A shirker or malingerer.
• n. (US slang, dated) A swindler.
• v. (US slang, dated) To shirk or malinger.
• v. (US slang, dated) To swindle.

manipulate

• v. (transitive) To move, arrange or operate something using the hands.
• v. (transitive) To influence, manage, direct, control or tamper with something.
• v. (transitive, medicine) To handle and move a body part, either as an examination or for a therapeutic purpose.
• v. (transitive) To influence or control someone in order to achieve a specific purpose, especially one that…

mend

• n. A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired by mending.
• n. The act of repairing.
• v. To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay,…
• v. To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.
• v. To help, to advance, to further; to add to.
• v. To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved.

misappropriate

• v. (transitive) To take something for wrong or illegal purposes.
• v. (transitive) To embezzle.

monkey

• n. Any member of the clade Simiiformes not also of the clade Hominoidea containing humans and apes, from…
• n. (informal) Any nonhuman primate, including apes.
• n. (informal) A mischievous child.
• n. (Britain, slang) Five hundred pounds sterling.
• n. (slang) A person or the role of the person on the sidecar platform of a motorcycle involved in sidecar…
• n. (slang) A person with minimal intelligence and/or an unattractive appearance.
• n. (blackjack) A face card.
• n. (slang) A menial employee who does a repetitive job, as in code monkey, grease monkey, phone monkey, powder…
• n. The weight or hammer of a pile driver; a heavy mass of iron, which, being raised high, falls on the head…
• n. A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
• v. (informal) To meddle; to mess with; to interfere; to fiddle.

peculate

• v. To embezzle.

play

• v. (intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose…
• v. (ergative) To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
• v. (intransitive) To take part in amorous activity; to make love, fornicate; to have sex.
• v. (transitive) To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
• v. (heading, transitive, intransitive) To produce music or theatre.
• v. (heading) To behave in a particular way.
• v. (intransitive) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion;…
• v. (intransitive) To move gaily; to disport.
• v. (transitive) To put in action or motion.
• v. (transitive) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.
• v. (transitive) To manipulate or deceive someone.
• n. (uncountable, formerly countable) Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
• n. (uncountable) Similar activity, in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
• n. (uncountable, ethology) "Repeated, incompletely functional behavior differing from more serious versions…
• n. The conduct, or course of a game.
• n. (countable) An individual's performance in a sport or game.
• n. (countable) (turn-based games) An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
• n. (countable) A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters…
• n. (countable) A theatrical performance featuring actors.
• n. (countable) A major move by a business.
• n. (countable) A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other…
• n. (uncountable) The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely.
• n. (uncountable, informal) Sexual role-playing.
• n. (countable) A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.

repair

• n. The act of repairing something.
• n. The result of repairing something.
• n. The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.
• v. To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.
• v. To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.
• n. The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
• n. A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.
• v. To transfer oneself to another place.
• v. to pair again.

restore

• n. (computing) The act of recovering data or a system from a backup.
• v. (transitive) To reestablish, or bring back into existence.
• v. (transitive) To bring back to a previous condition or state.
• v. (transitive) To give or bring back (that which has been lost or taken); to bring back to the owner; to…
• v. (transitive) To give in place of, or as restitution for.
• v. (computing) To recover (data, etc.) from a backup.
• v. (obsolete) To make good; to make amends for.

shirk

• v. (transitive) To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from.
• v. (intransitive) To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.
• v. (transitive) To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
• n. one who shirks.
• n. (Islam) the unforgivable sin of idolatry.

spiel

• n. A lengthy and extravagant speech or argument usually intended to persuade.
• n. A fast excuse or sales pitch.
• n. An early form of rap music.
• v. To talk at length.
• n. A game of curling.

string

• n. (countable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
• n. (uncountable) Such a structure considered as a substance.
• n. (countable) Any similar long, thin and flexible object.
• n. A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession;…
• n. (countable) A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.
• n. (countable) A series of items or events.
• n. (countable) In various games and competitions, a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
• n. (countable, computing) An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable…
• n. (music, countable) A stringed instrument.
• n. (music, usually in the plural) The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those…
• n. (in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collecively.
• n. (countable, physics) The main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics.
• n. (slang) Cannabis or marijuana.
• n. Part of the game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball…
• n. The points made in a game of billiards.
• n. (billiards, pool) The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play,…
• n. A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
• n. (archaic) A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root.
• n. (archaic) A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
• n. (shipbuilding) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and…
• n. (botany) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.
• n. (mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
• n. (architecture) A stringcourse.
• n. (dated, slang) A hoax; a fake story.
• v. (transitive) To put (items) on a string.
• v. (transitive) To put strings on (something).
• v. (intransitive) To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are…

tamper

• n. A person or thing that tamps.
• n. A tool used to tamp something down, such as tobacco in a pipe.
• n. An envelope of neutron-reflecting material in a nuclear weapon, used to delay the expansion of the reacting…
• v. (intransitive) To alter by making unauthorized changes; to meddle.
• v. (in professional sports) To discuss future contracts against league rules with a player.

tinker

• n. an itinerant tinsmith and mender of household utensils made of tin.
• n. (dated, chiefly Britain and Ireland, offensive) A member of the travelling community. A gypsy.
• n. (usually with "little") A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster.
• n. Someone who repairs, or attempts repair on anything mechanical (tinkers) or invents; a tinkerer.
• n. The act of repair or invention.
• n. (military, obsolete) A small mortar on the end of a staff.
• n. Any of various fish: the chub mackerel, the silverside, the skate, or a young mackerel about two years…
• n. A bird, the razor-billed auk.
• v. (intransitive) To fiddle with something in an attempt to fix, mend or improve it, especially in an experimental…
• v. (intransitive) To work as a tinker.

toy

• n. Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child.
• n. A thing of little importance or value; a trifle.
• n. A simple, light piece of music, written especially for the virginal.
• n. (obsolete) Love play, amorous dalliance; fondling.
• n. (obsolete) A vague fancy, a ridiculous idea or notion; a whim.
• n. (slang, derogatory) An inferior graffiti artist.
• n. (obsolete) An old story; a silly tale.
• n. (Scotland, archaic) A headdress of linen or wool that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women…
• v. (intransitive) To play (with).
• v. (intransitive) To ponder or consider.
• v. (slang, transitive) To stimulate with a sex toy.

violin

• n. (music) A musical four-string instrument, generally played with a bow or by plucking the string, with…
• n. (music) A violinist.