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manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
She played nervously with her wedding ring; Don't fiddle with the screws; He played with the idea of running for the Senate
(verb) hornswoggle, goldbrick, gip, gyp, bunco, short-change, scam, rook, con, defraud, swindle, mulct, nobble, victimize
deprive of by deceit
He swindled me out of my inheritance; She defrauded the customers who trusted her; the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change