Thesaurus:deceive
English
Verb
Sense: to intentionally make believe a false thing
Synonyms
Hyponyms
- bamboozle
- beguile
- belirt
- bewile
- chance (Belize)
- cheat
- con
- cozen (archaic)
- defraud
- delude
- dupe [⇒ thesaurus]
- fake out
- falsify
- flam
- flimflam
- fool [⇒ thesaurus]
- get
- goof
- gull
- have
- hoodwink
- hornswoggle
- humbug
- hustle
- lead on
- lead someone up the garden path
- lie [⇒ thesaurus]
- mislead
- pull a fast one
- pull the wool over somebody's eyes
- put one over
- sell someone a pup
- snooker
- snow
- swack up (dated, UK, slang)
- swindle
- take in
- take for a ride
Various
See also
Further reading
- “545. deception” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “deceive” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.