All delude synonyms
de·lude
D d verb delude
- deceive — If you deceive someone, you make them believe something that is not true, usually in order to get some advantage for yourself.
- mislead — to lead or guide wrongly; lead astray.
- dupe — duplicate.
- hoodwink — to deceive or trick.
- misguide — to guide wrongly; misdirect.
- hoax — something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
- outfox — to outwit; outsmart; outmaneuver: Politics is often the art of knowing how to outfox the opposition.
- cheat — When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam.
- gull — a person who is easily deceived or cheated; dupe.
- snow — Sir Charles Percy (C. P. Snow) 1905–80, English novelist and scientist.
- trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- beguile — If something beguiles you, you are charmed and attracted by it.
- betray — If you betray someone who loves or trusts you, your actions hurt and disappoint them.
- bluff — A bluff is an attempt to make someone believe that you will do something when you do not really intend to do it.
- juggle — to keep (several objects, as balls, plates, tenpins, or knives) in continuous motion in the air simultaneously by tossing and catching.
- cozen — to cheat or trick (someone)
- con — Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
- jive — swing music or early jazz.
- double-cross — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
- string along — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- sucker — a person or thing that sucks.
- take in — the act of taking.
- caboodle — a lot, bunch, or group (esp in the phrases the whole caboodle, the whole kit and caboodle)
- disinform — to give or supply disinformation to.
- do a number on — a numeral or group of numerals.
- illude — to deceive or trick.
- impose on — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- mousetrap — a trap for mice, especially one consisting of a rectangular wooden base on which a metal spring is mounted.
- fool — to trick, deceive, or impose on: They tried to fool him.