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All double-cross synonyms

dou·ble-cross
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verb double-cross

  • 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.
  • cheat — When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam.
  • con — Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
  • cross — If you cross something such as a room, a road, or an area of land or water, you move or travel to the other side of it. If you cross to a place, you move or travel over a room, road, or area of land or water in order to reach that place.
  • deceive — If you deceive someone, you make them believe something that is not true, usually in order to get some advantage for yourself.
  • 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.
  • dupe — duplicate.
  • hoodwink — to deceive or trick.
  • humbug — something intended to delude or deceive.
  • juggle — to keep (several objects, as balls, plates, tenpins, or knives) in continuous motion in the air simultaneously by tossing and catching.
  • mislead — to lead or guide wrongly; lead astray.
  • scam — a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
  • sell — to transfer (goods) to or render (services) for another in exchange for money; dispose of to a purchaser for a price: He sold the car to me for $1000.
  • sell out — to transfer (goods) to or render (services) for another in exchange for money; dispose of to a purchaser for a price: He sold the car to me for $1000.
  • split — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
  • stab in the back — to pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon: She stabbed a piece of chicken with her fork.
  • swindle — to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.
  • take in — the act of taking.
  • trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
  • two-time — to be unfaithful to (a lover or spouse).
  • four-flush — to bluff.
  • illude — to deceive or trick.
  • sell down the river — a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite course or channel or series of diverging and converging channels.
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