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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disguise, pretend |
| Synonyms: | affect, camouflage, cloak, conceal, counterfeit, cover, cover up, dissimulate, double-talk, doublespeak, dress up, fake, falsify, feign, four-flush, hide, let on, make like, mask, pass, play possum, pussyfoot, put on a false front, put on a front, put on an act, put up a front, put up a smoke screen, sham*, shroud, shuck and jive, signify, simulate, stonewall, whitewash |
| Notes: | dissemble means to conceal, to give a false appearance; disassemble means to take apart |
| Antonyms: | admit, allow |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | falsify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | alter, misrepresent |
| Synonyms: | adulterate, belie, change, color, con, contort, contradict, contravene, cook, counterfeit, deacon, deceive, deny, distort, doctor, dress up, embroider, equivocate, exaggerate, fake, fake it, fib, forge, four-flush, frame up, garble, gloss, lie, misquote, misstate, palter, pervert, phony up, prevaricate, promote, put on an act, salt, tamper with, traverse, trump up, twist, warp |
| Main Entry: | feign |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pretend |
| Synonyms: | act, affect, assume, bluff*, counterfeit, devise, dissemble, dissimulate, do a bit, fabricate, fake, forge, four-flush, give appearance of, imagine, imitate, invent, make show of, phony up, play, play possum, put on, put on act, put up a front, sham*, simulate, stonewall |
| Antonyms: | be true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sell/sell out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | betray |
| Synonyms: | beguile, break faith, bunk, cross, deceive, deliver up, delude, disappoint, double-cross, fail, four-flush, give away, give up, mislead, play false, rat on, sell down the river, stab in the back, surrender, take in, violate |
| Antonyms: | guard, protect |
| Main Entry: | take in |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deceive, fool |
| Synonyms: | beguile, betray, bilk, bluff, cheat, con, defraud, delude, do*, double-cross, dupe, flimflam, four-flush, gull, hoodwink, lie, mislead, pull wool over eyes, swindle, trick |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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