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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

... the leader of today gives his own version or reading of the composition just as the pianist or violinist does. Instead of being a mere "time beater" he has become an interpreter, and (except in the case of the organist-director of a choir) he attempts to do nothing except so to manipulate his musical forces as to secure ...

— Essentials in Conducting • Karl Wilson Gehrkens

... practice of Homer, who believed his gods and goddesses to be real beings, and would have been rather harsh with a critic who called them machinery. These rules had probably an influence with Milton, and induced him to manipulate these serious angels more than he would have done otherwise. They appear to be excellent administrators with very little to do; a kind of grand chamberlains with wings, who fly down to earth and communicate information to Adam and Eve. They have no character: they are essentially ...

— Harvard Classics Volume 28 - Essays English and American • Various

... the domestic stuff is equally unpromising, but in the great bulk, year in and year out, there is the making of fine men. ... New York State men are scattered throughout the country. They found the cities of the west; they run the railroads; they manipulate the finances; they capitalize the new enterprises; they invest in the futures; they get into the public offices; they plan the political campaigns; they produce the new ideas; they center current history. Men are made in New ...

— New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 - Report of the New York State Commission • DeLancey M. Ellis

... the results sought in our last division, we should learn to manipulate the elements of speech fluently without breaking their relation to (harmony with) the primary focus, or ...

— Expressive Voice Culture - Including the Emerson System • Jessie Eldridge Southwick

... gallons of water place a bag in which is put one quart of ordinary wheat bran. The bag is made of cheese cloth. Squeeze and manipulate the bran bag until the water resembles a thin porridge. The temperature of the water is usually about 95 deg. F., though it may be given ...

— The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • Grant Hague

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