| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. To get money or something else from by deceitful trickery: bilk, cheat, defraud, gull, mulct, rook, swindle, victimize. Informal : chisel, flimflam, take, trim. Slang : diddle1, do, gyp, stick, sting. See HONEST. 2. To cause to accept what is false, especially by trickery or misrepresentation: beguile, betray, bluff, deceive, delude, double-cross, dupe, fool, hoodwink, humbug, mislead, take in, trick. Informal : bamboozle, have. Slang : four-flush. Idioms: lead astray, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, put something over on, take for a ride. See HONEST.
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