feel vs manipulate

feel

verb
  • To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements. 

  • To experience an emotion or other mental state. 

  • To search by sense of touch. 

  • To think, believe, or have an impression concerning. 

  • To be or become aware of. 

  • To seem (through touch or otherwise). 

  • To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected. 

  • To understand. 

  • To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on. 

  • To experience an emotion or other mental state about. 

  • To experience the consequences of. 

  • To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing. 

noun
  • An act of fondling. 

  • A perception experienced mainly or solely through the sense of touch. 

  • A feeling; an emotion. 

  • A vague mental impression. 

  • An intuitive ability. 

  • A vague understanding. 

manipulate

verb
  • To move, arrange or operate something using the hands 

  • 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 

  • To handle and move a body part, either as an examination or for a therapeutic purpose 

  • To influence, manage, direct, control or tamper with something 

How often have the words feel and manipulate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )