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Manipulate

verb

(past & past part. manipulated; pres. part. manipulating)

Influence or control shrewdly or deviously. Synonyms: pull strings, pull wires.

Hold something in one's hands and move it.

Tamper, with the purpose of deception. Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, fudge, misrepresent, wangle. "Cook the books" , "Falsify the data"

Manipulate in a fraudulent manner. Synonym: rig.

Control (others or oneself) or influence skillfully, usually to one's advantage. Synonyms: control, keep in line. "She is a very controlling mother and doesn't let her children grow up" , "The teacher knew how to keep the class in line" , "She keeps in line"

Treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed.

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"Manipulate" Quotes from Famous Books

... made a difference in the centre of gravity, for Le Bris could not manipulate his levers for further ascent; by skilful manipulation he retarded the descent sufficiently to escape injury to himself; the machine descended at an angle, so that one wing, striking the ground in front of the other, received a ...

— A History of Aeronautics • E. Charles Vivian

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