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All delude synonyms

de·lude
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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.
  • snowSir 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.
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