diddle

Verb

• 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
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  toy , fiddle , play