Definition of Manipulate

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Manipulate

To treat, work, or operate with the hands, especially when knowledge and dexterity are required; to manage in hand work; to handle; as, to manipulate scientific apparatus.

To control the action of, by management; as, to manipulate a convention of delegates; to manipulate the stock market; also, to manage artfully or fraudulently; as, to manipulate accounts, or election returns.

To use the hands in dexterous operations; to do hand work; specifically, to manage the apparatus or instruments used in scientific work, or in artistic or mechanical processes; also, specifically, to use the hand in mesmeric operations.

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Manipulate Quotations

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
Bob Dylan

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.
Dean Koontz

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
Erich Fromm

I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.
Lauryn Hill

I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
Randy Harrison

I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.
Peter Jennings

I've never tried to manipulate my image.
Alan Alda

I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.
Salma Hayek

I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation.
Bo Bennett

And then there's all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. I'm always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle.
Shirley Manson

Manipulate Translations

manipulate in Afrikaans is hanteer
manipulate in Dutch is omgaan met, manipuleren, hanteren
manipulate in French is manipulent, manipulons, manipulez
manipulate in German is manipulieren, manipuliere
manipulate in Portuguese is manipule
manipulate in Spanish is manipular
manipulate in Swedish is manipulera

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