Nearby Words
deceived
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cheat, bilk |
| Synonyms: | bamboozle, beguile, burn, chouse, circumvent, clip, con, cozen, deceive, delude, do, do number on, do out of, dupe, embezzle, fleece, flimflam, foil, hoax, jive, milk, outwit, pilfer, pull fast one, rip off, rob, shaft*, shuck, stick*, sucker into, swindle, take in*, take to the cleaner's, take*, trick, victimize |
| Antonyms: | contribute, help, repay, support |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disguise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mask; misrepresent |
| Synonyms: | affect, age, alter, antique, assume, beard, belie, camouflage, change, cloak, color, conceal, counterfeit, cover, cover up, deceive, dissemble, dissimulate, doctor up, dress up, fake, falsify, feign, front, fudge, garble, gloss over, hide, make like, make up, masquerade, muffle, obfuscate, obscure, pretend, put on a false front, put on a front, put on an act, put up a front, redo, screen, secrete, sham, shroud, simulate, touch up, varnish, veil, wear cheaters, whitewash |
| Antonyms: | expose, open, represent, reveal, uncover, unmask |
| Main Entry: | dissimulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conceal, disguise |
| Synonyms: | beard, camouflage, cloak, deceive, dissemble, dress up, fake, feign, hide, make-believe, mask, present a false face, present a false front, pretend |
| Antonyms: | be honest |
| Main Entry: | distort |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deform; falsify |
| Synonyms: | alter, angle, belie, bend, bias, buckle, change, collapse, color, con, contort, crush, curve, deceive, decline, deteriorate, deviate, disfigure, doctor*, fake, fudge, garble, gnarl, knot, lie, make out like, mangle, melt, misconstrue, misinterpret, misrepresent, misshape, pervert, phony up, put one on, sag, scam*, slant, slump, snow*, torture, trump up, twist, warp, whitewash, wind, wrench, writhe |
| Antonyms: | beautify, shape nicely, straight |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | do |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cheat |
| Synonyms: | beat, bilk, chouse, con, cozen, deceive, defraud, dupe, fleece, flimflam, gyp, hoax, overreach, swindle, take for a ride, trick |
| Main Entry: | dodge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | avoid |
| Synonyms: | circumlocute, dark, deceive, ditch, duck, elude, equivocate, escape, evade, fence, fend off, fudge, get around, get out of, give the slip, hedge, juke, lurch, malinger, move to the side, parry, pussyfoot, put the move on, shake, shake off, shift, shirk, short-circuit, shuffle, sidestep, skip out on, skirt, slide, slip, swerve, tergiversate, tergiverse, trick, turn aside, weasel |
| Antonyms: | confront, encounter, face, meet, stand up to |
| Main Entry: | do out of |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cheat |
| Synonyms: | balk, beat out of, bilk, con, deceive, deprive, steal, swindle, trick |
| Main Entry: | double-cross |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | to deceive or betray someone |
| Synonyms: | beguile, betray, bluff, cheat, con, cross, deceive, defraud, double deal, dupe, four-flush, hoodwink*, humbug, illude, juggle, mislead, scam, sell, sell down the river, sell out, sell out, split, stab in the back, swindle, take in, trick, two-time, two-time |
| Antonyms: | be open, tell truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dupe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fool someone |
| Synonyms: | baffle, bamboozle*, beguile, betray, catch, cheat, chicane, circumvent, con, cozen, deceive, defraud, delude, double-cross, dust*, flimflam, gull, hoax, hoodwink*, hornswoggle, jerk around, kid, mislead, outwit, overreach, pull one's leg, pull something, rip off, rook, rope in, shaft, spoof, swindle, trick, victimize |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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