All bamboozle synonyms

verb bamboozle

• mystify — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
• perplex — to cause to be puzzled or bewildered over what is not understood or certain; confuse mentally: Her strange response perplexed me.
• befuddle — If something befuddles you, it confuses your mind or thoughts.
• dupe — duplicate.
• deceive — If you deceive someone, you make them believe something that is not true, usually in order to get some advantage for yourself.
• hoodwink — to deceive or trick.
• delude — If you delude yourself, you let yourself believe that something is true, even though it is not true.
• hoax — something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
• stump — the lower end of a tree or plant left after the main part falls or is cut off; a standing tree trunk from which the upper part and branches have been removed.
• baffle — If something baffles you, you cannot understand it or explain it.
• confuse — If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
• puzzle — a toy, problem, or other contrivance designed to amuse by presenting difficulties to be solved by ingenuity or patient effort.
• bilk — To bilk someone out of something, especially money, means to cheat them out of it.
• trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
• confound — If someone or something confounds you, they make you feel surprised or confused, often by showing you that your opinions or expectations of them were wrong.
• swindle — to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.
• hornswoggle — to swindle, cheat, hoodwink, or hoax.
• defraud — If someone defrauds you, they take something away from you or stop you from getting what belongs to you by means of tricks and lies.
• con — Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
• flimflam — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
• cheat — When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam.
• take in — the act of taking.
• fool — to trick, deceive, or impose on: They tried to fool him.
• bewilder — If something bewilders you, it is so confusing or difficult that you cannot understand it.
• bemuse — If something bemuses you, it puzzles or confuses you.
• muddle — to mix up in a confused or bungling manner; jumble.
• flummox — to bewilder; confound; confuse.