All lead on synonyms

verb lead on

• mislead — to lead or guide wrongly; lead astray.
• allure — to entice or tempt (someone) to a person or place or to a course of action; attract
• attract — If something attracts people or animals, it has features that cause them to come to it.
• provoke — to anger, enrage, exasperate, or vex.
• aggravate — If someone or something aggravates a situation, they make it worse.
• trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
• victimize — to make a victim of.
• cheat — When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam.
• swindle — to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.
• dupe — duplicate.
• betray — If you betray someone who loves or trusts you, your actions hurt and disappoint them.
• disappoint — to fail to fulfill the expectations or wishes of: His gross ingratitude disappointed us.
• hoodwink — to deceive or trick.
• circumvent — If someone circumvents a rule or restriction, they avoid having to obey the rule or restriction, in a clever and perhaps dishonest way.
• falsify — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
• 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.
• delude — If you delude yourself, you let yourself believe that something is true, even though it is not true.
• drag out — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
• protract — to draw out or lengthen, especially in time; extend the duration of; prolong.
• implicate — to show to be also involved, usually in an incriminating manner: to be implicated in a crime.
• unsettle — to alter from a settled state; cause to be no longer firmly fixed or established; render unstable; disturb: Violence unsettled the government.
• perplex — to cause to be puzzled or bewildered over what is not understood or certain; confuse mentally: Her strange response perplexed me.
• interweave — to weave together, as threads, strands, branches, or roots.
• confuse — If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
• complicate — To complicate something means to make it more difficult to understand or deal with.
• snarl — to become tangled; get into a tangle.
• intertwine — Twist or twine together.
• snare — one of the strings of gut or of tightly spiraled metal stretched across the skin of a snare drum.
• tangle — to bring together into a mass of confusedly interlaced or intertwisted threads, strands, or other like parts; snarl.
• tease — to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling raillery, or other annoyance, often in sport.
• pretend — to cause or attempt to cause (what is not so) to seem so: to pretend illness; to pretend that nothing is wrong.
• tickle — to touch or stroke lightly with the fingers, a feather, etc., so as to excite a tingling or itching sensation in; titillate.
• please — (used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly: Please come here. Will you please turn the radio off?
• delight — Delight is a feeling of very great pleasure.
• pique — a fabric of cotton, spun rayon, or silk, woven lengthwise with raised cords.
• rivet — a metal pin for passing through holes in two or more plates or pieces to hold them together, usually made with a head at one end, the other end being hammered into a head after insertion.
• lie — Jonas, 1880–1940, U.S. painter, born in Norway.
• misinform — to give false or misleading information to.
• misrepresent — to represent incorrectly, improperly, or falsely.
• 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.
• misguide — to guide wrongly; misdirect.
• frustrate — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
• baffle — If something baffles you, you cannot understand it or explain it.
• torment — to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
• tantalize — to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach; tease by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed.
• beguile — If something beguiles you, you are charmed and attracted by it.
• bewitch — If someone or something bewitches you, you are so attracted to them that you cannot think about anything else.
• captivate — If you are captivated by someone or something, you find them fascinating and attractive.
• stimulate — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
• motivate — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.