manipulate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   control others or oneself, or influence skillfully, usually to one's advantage

   They try to manipulate their employer.

2. 2
   verb

   influence or control shrewdly or deviously

   They manipulated public opinion in their favor.

3. 3
   verb

   To influence, manage, direct, control or tamper with something

   manipulate data

4. 4
   verb

   To influence or control someone in order to achieve a specific purpose, especially one that is unknown to the one being manipulated and beneficial to the manipulator; to use

   cleverly manipulate

5. 5
   verb

   treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed

6. 6
   verb

   hold something in one's hands and move it

7. 7
   verb

   manipulate in a fraudulent manner

8. 8
   verb

   tamper, with the purpose of deception

Etymology

Back-formation from manipulation.