Usually means: Control or influence cleverly, unfairly, skillfully.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word manipulate:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. manipulate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. manipulate: Merriam-Webster
  3. manipulate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. manipulate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. manipulate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. manipulate: Vocabulary.com
  7. Manipulate, manipulate: Wordnik
  8. manipulate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. manipulate: Wiktionary
  10. manipulate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. manipulate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. manipulate: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. manipulate: Dictionary.com
  14. manipulate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Manipulate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. manipulate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. manipulate: Rhymezone
  18. manipulate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. manipulate: FreeDictionary.org
  20. manipulate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. manipulate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. manipulate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. manipulate: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. manipulate: Legal dictionary
  4. manipulate: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. manipulate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. manipulate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. manipulate: Medical dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See manipulatable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To move, arrange or operate something using the hands
verb:  (transitive) To influence, manage, direct, control or tamper with something
verb:  (transitive, medicine) To handle and move a body part, either as an examination or for a therapeutic purpose
verb:  (transitive) 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
verb:  (intransitive, dated) To use the hands, especially in scientific experiments.

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