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take for ride
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mislead; be dishonest |
| Synonyms: | bamboozle*, beat, beat out of, beguile, betray, bilk, buffalo, burn, cheat, circumvent, clip, con, cozen, cross up, defraud, delude, disappoint, double-cross, dupe, ensnare, entrap, fake, falsify, fleece, fool, gouge, gull, hoax, hoodwink, hook*, humbug, impose upon, lead on, outwit, play joke on, pull fast one, put on, rob, scam, screw, sell, skin, suck in, swindle, take advantage of, take for, take for ride, take in, take to cleaners, trick, victimize |
| Antonyms: | be honest |
* = 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: | fleece |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plunder, steal |
| Synonyms: | bleed, burn*, cheat*, clip, con, cozen, defraud, despoil, flimflam, gouge, hustle, jerk around, milk, mulct, overcharge, pluck, rifle, rip off, rob, rook, rope in, run a game on, sell a bill of goods, shaft*, strip, swindle, take for a ride, take to the cleaners |
| Antonyms: | give, offer |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flimflam |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deceive, swindle |
| Synonyms: | bilk, burn*, cheat, chisel, con, defraud, diddle, dupe*, fleece, fool, gip, gull, gyp, hose, pull a fast one, rip off, rook, sandbag, scam, shaft, steal, take for a ride, trick |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gyp |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | rip-off |
| Synonyms: | bamboozle, bilk, cheat, deceive, defraud, dupe, fleece, flimflam, gip, gull, hoodwink, hustle*, pull something, rook, scam, stick*, swindle, take for a ride, trick |
| Antonyms: | be fair, give, offer |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hoax |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | trick |
| Synonyms: | Murphy, bamboozle*, bluff, chicane, con, deceive, delude, dupe, fake out, fleece, flimflam, fool, frame, gammon, gull, hoodwink*, play games with, pull one's leg, rook, run a game on, set up*, sting*, swindle, take for a ride, take in* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hoodwink |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deceive |
| Synonyms: | bamboozle*, beat out of, bilk, bluff, buffalo, burn, cheat, con, defraud, double-cross, dupe, fake, fleece, fool, gull, gyp, hoax, hornswoggle, kid, mislead, pull a fast one, pull the wool over one's eyes, scam, screw, suck in, swindle, take advantage of, take for a ride, take to the cleaners, trick, victimize |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | murder |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | kill |
| Synonyms: | abolish, asphyxiate, assassinate, behead, blot out, bump off, butcher, chill*, cool*, decapitate, defeat, destroy, dispatch, do in, drub, dust off, electrocute, eliminate, eradicate, execute, exterminate, extinguish, finish, garotte, guillotine, hang, hit*, knife, knock off, liquidate, lynch, mangle, mar, massacre, misuse, off*, put away, rub out, ruin, shoot, slaughter, slay, smother, snuff, spoil, strangle, take a life, take for a ride, take out*, thrash*, waste* |
| Notes: | the general term for the killing of a person by another is homicide; murder is either the intentional killing or malicious killing of another; manslaughter is the unintentional, accidental killing of another through carelessness |
| Antonyms: | guard, preserve, protect, save |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | string along |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | play with; keep dangling |
| Synonyms: | bluff, coquet, dally, deceive, dupe, flirt, fool, hoax, lead on, put one over on, take for a ride, toy, trifle, wanton |
| Antonyms: | let go, release |
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