All illude synonyms

verb illude

• deceive — If you deceive someone, you make them believe something that is not true, usually in order to get some advantage for yourself.
• shuffle — to walk without lifting the feet or with clumsy steps and a shambling gait.
• alter — If something alters or if you alter it, it changes.
• misinform — to give false or misleading information to.
• tempt — to entice or allure to do something often regarded as unwise, wrong, or immoral.
• fudge — a small stereotype or a few lines of specially prepared type, bearing a newspaper bulletin, for replacing a detachable part of a page plate without the need to replate the entire page.
• pretend — to cause or attempt to cause (what is not so) to seem so: to pretend illness; to pretend that nothing is wrong.
• delude — If you delude yourself, you let yourself believe that something is true, even though it is not true.
• dupe — duplicate.
• hoodwink — to deceive or trick.
• misguide — to guide wrongly; misdirect.
• trim — to put into a neat or orderly condition by clipping, paring, pruning, etc.: to trim a hedge.
• maneuver — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
• doctor — a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
• conjure — If you conjure something out of nothing, you make it appear as if by magic.
• fix — to repair; mend.
• modify — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
• change — If there is a change in something, it becomes different.
• disguise — to change the appearance or guise of so as to conceal identity or mislead, as by means of deceptive garb: The king was disguised as a peasant.
• misrepresent — to represent incorrectly, improperly, or falsely.
• manipulate — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
• pervert — to affect with perversion.
• bait — Bait is food which you put on a hook or in a trap in order to catch fish or animals.
• inveigle — to entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements (usually followed by into): to inveigle a person into playing bridge.
• seduce — to lead astray, as from duty, rectitude, or the like; corrupt.
• bunk — A bunk is a bed that is fixed to a wall, especially in a ship or caravan.
• outwit — to get the better of by superior ingenuity or cleverness; outsmart: to outwit a dangerous opponent.
• victimize — to make a victim of.
• lure — anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
• hose — a flexible tube for conveying a liquid, as water, to a desired point: a garden hose; a fire hose.
• overreach — to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
• shaft — a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.
• rook — one of two pieces of the same color that may be moved any number of unobstructed squares horizontally or vertically; castle.
• bilk — To bilk someone out of something, especially money, means to cheat them out of it.
• misdirect — to direct or address wrongly or incorrectly: to misdirect a person; to misdirect a letter.
• fool — to trick, deceive, or impose on: They tried to fool him.
• lie — Jonas, 1880–1940, U.S. painter, born in Norway.
• humbug — something intended to delude or deceive.
• shuck — a husk or pod, as the outer covering of corn, hickory nuts, chestnuts, etc.
• sham — something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
• feign — to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of: to feign sickness.
• 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.
• mislead — to lead or guide wrongly; lead astray.
• simulate — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
• fake — to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often followed by down).
• affect — If something affects a person or thing, it influences them or causes them to change in some way.
• juggle — to keep (several objects, as balls, plates, tenpins, or knives) in continuous motion in the air simultaneously by tossing and catching.
• counterfeit — Counterfeit money, goods, or documents are not genuine, but have been made to look exactly like genuine ones in order to deceive people.