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play with

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play something with someone or something 
1. to play a game with someone or a group. Do you want to play checkers with me? Fran played ball with the dog for a while.
2. to assume a particular role with someone or some group. Don't play the fool with me! Don always tried to play the successful entrepreneur with the board of directors.
See also: play

play with someone or something 

1. to play games with someone or a group. I love to play Ping-Pong. Will you play with me? They won't play with our team. We are too good.
2. to toy with someone or something. You are just playing with me. Can't you take me seriously? Please don't play with that crystal vase.
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play with something
to use something in a way that is not serious or careful She's playing with a dangerous drug. The budget is just playing with numbers and doesn't make sense.
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Let us make an image out of snow,--an image of a little girl,--and it shall be our sister, and shall run about and play with us all winter long.
It was the only tune she knew, but that she could play with one finger.
They also know how to play with false dice; and so eagerly did I find them playing, that they perspired thereby.
 
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