deceive (redirected from deceives)

deceive verb befool, beguile, belie, blind, cheat, circumvent, cog, cozen, decoy, defraud, delude, dissemble, dissimulate, dupe, ensnare, entrap, fainaigue, fake, falsify, fool, forswear, gull, hoax, hoodwink, humbug, inveigle, lie, misdirect, misguide, misinform, misrepresent, mulct, practice chicanery, practice deeeption, prevaricate, snare, sneak, swindle, take advantage, trap, trick, victimize

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See also: bait, betray, bilk, camouflage, cheat, circumvent, cloak, defraud, delude, disguise, dupe, ensnare, entrap, equivocate, fabricate, fake, falsify, feign, foist, hide, hoodwink, illude, inveigle, lie, lure, misguide, misinform, mislabel, mislead, misrepresent, misstate, mulct, overreach, palter, peculate, pettifog, pretend, prevaricate

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TO DECEIVE. To induce another either by words or actions, to take that for true which is not so. Wolff, Inst. Nat. Sec. 356.