Meaning | Cause someone to believe an untruth. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody |
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Example | "The insurance company deceived me when they told me they were covering my house" |
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Synonyms | betray, lead astray |
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Narrower | bamboozle, snow, hoodwink, pull the wool over someone's eyes, lead by the nose, play false | conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end |
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gull, dupe, slang, befool, cod, fool, put on, take in, put one over, put one across | fool or hoax |
pose, impersonate, personate | pretend to be someone you are not |
Broader | misinform, mislead | Give false / false or misleading information to |
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Opposite | undeceive | Free from deception or illusion |
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Spanish | confundir, engañar |
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Catalan | enganyar |
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Adjectives | deceptive | designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently |
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deceptive | causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true |
Nouns | deceiver | someone who leads you to believe something that is not true |
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deception | the act of deceiving / deceiving |