deceive
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
deceive/dɪˈsiːv/
▶verb deliberately cause (someone) to believe something that is not true.
■ (of a thing) give a mistaken impression to: the area may seem to offer nothing of interest, but don't be deceived.
– derivatives
deceivable adjective,
deceiver noun.
deceivable adjective,
deceiver noun.
– origin ME: from OFr. deceivre, from L. decipere ‘ensnare, cheat’.
'deceive' also found in these Oxford entries:
amuse
- artifice
- bad faith
- baffle
- barratry
- baulk
- beguile
- belie
- bill of goods
- blench
- blende
- blink
- bluff
- bona fide
- bullshit
- collude
- collusion
- con
- conceit
- counterfeit
- cozen
- deceit
- deceitful
- deception
- default
- dive
- double-cross
- dummy
- dupe
- euchre
- fabricate
- fail
- fake
- fallible
- false
- false pretences
- fault
- flatter
- flimflam
- fob
- fool
- fox
- fraud
- gammon
- gull
- have
- hoax
- hocus
- hoodwink
