"toy with" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "toys with",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toying with",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toyed with",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toyed with",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "toy with (third-person singular simple present toys with, present participle toying with, simple past and past participle toyed with)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "You shouldn't toy with someone's feelings.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "15 October 2013, Daniel Taylor, “Steven Gerrard goal against Poland ensures England will go to World Cup”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Roy Hodgson's team had toyed with everyone's nerves. They had come across a Poland side that gave everything on a night when Wembley often sounded more like Warsaw, and Gerrard's late, decisive strike came at a stage of the night when England's management was thinking about little more than protecting Wayne Rooney's first-half goal.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To handle something in a careless or frivolous manner."
      ],
      "id": "en-toy_with-en-verb--es5kVCn",
      "links": [
        [
          "careless",
          "careless"
        ],
        [
          "frivolous",
          "frivolous"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "handle carelessly",
          "word": "leikkiä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "paízo me",
          "sense": "handle carelessly",
          "word": "παίζω με"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "sképtomai na",
          "sense": "handle carelessly",
          "word": "σκέπτομαι να"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "29 71",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "22 78",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (with)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To play, especially with or as with a toy."
      ],
      "id": "en-toy_with-en-verb-P3nUrhpW",
      "links": [
        [
          "play",
          "play"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "play",
          "word": "joguinejar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "kw",
          "lang": "Cornish",
          "sense": "play",
          "word": "trufla"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "play",
          "word": "leikkiä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "play",
          "word": "chwarae gyda"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "toy with"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (with)",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "toys with",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toying with",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toyed with",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toyed with",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "toy with (third-person singular simple present toys with, present participle toying with, simple past and past participle toyed with)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "You shouldn't toy with someone's feelings.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "15 October 2013, Daniel Taylor, “Steven Gerrard goal against Poland ensures England will go to World Cup”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Roy Hodgson's team had toyed with everyone's nerves. They had come across a Poland side that gave everything on a night when Wembley often sounded more like Warsaw, and Gerrard's late, decisive strike came at a stage of the night when England's management was thinking about little more than protecting Wayne Rooney's first-half goal.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To handle something in a careless or frivolous manner."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "careless",
          "careless"
        ],
        [
          "frivolous",
          "frivolous"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To play, especially with or as with a toy."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "play",
          "play"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "handle carelessly",
      "word": "leikkiä"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "paízo me",
      "sense": "handle carelessly",
      "word": "παίζω με"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "sképtomai na",
      "sense": "handle carelessly",
      "word": "σκέπτομαι να"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "play",
      "word": "joguinejar"
    },
    {
      "code": "kw",
      "lang": "Cornish",
      "sense": "play",
      "word": "trufla"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "play",
      "word": "leikkiä"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "play",
      "word": "chwarae gyda"
    }
  ],
  "word": "toy with"
}