<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.</li><li>to handle, manage, or use, especially with skill, in some process of treatment or performance: to manipulate a large tractor.</li><li>to adapt or change (accounts, figures, etc.) to suit one's purpose or advantage.</li><li>to examine or treat by skillful use of the hands, as in palpation, reduction of dislocations, or changing the position of a fetus.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>