To deceive.

transitive. To make blind. temporarily, e.g. with bright light: To dazzle.

To deceive, cheat, ensnare.

transitive. To deceive, cheat, fool.

transitive. To betray, cheat, deceive.

transitive. To deceive, cheat. Obsolete.

transitive. To blind, deceive, cheat; = blench, v.1 1.

transitive. To deceive by lying, tell a lie to. rare.

To take by craft; to beguile, cheat, deceive.

transitive. To deceive, beguile.

transitive. To entangle or over-reach with guile; to delude, deceive, cheat.

To cheat, deceive.

transitive. To beguile; to deceive.

transitive. To deceive, cheat, betray, play false with.

transitive. To make unordained; esp. to divest (a priest or minister) of holy orders; to defrock. Also (intransitive): to recant or reverse a…

transitive. To deceive. Obsolete. rare.

To cause to believe what is false; to mislead as to a matter of fact, lead into error, impose upon, delude, ‘take in’.

To deceive. Obsolete.

transitive. To deceive, cheat, play false with. (See also treachetour, n.)

transitive. To deceive, delude. Cf. abuse, v. 3. Obsolete.

figurative. To close the eyes of the understanding or moral perception; to deceive, ‘throw dust in the eyes’ of (persons and their faculties)…

To overreach, deceive. Obsolete. rare.

to deceive.

transitive. To dupe, beguile, deceive.

transitive. To mislead, beguile, cheat (a person). Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To deceive, cheat, fool; = belirt, v.

transitive. To misuse the confidence of (someone); to betray (a person's trust, confidence, etc.); to mislead; to cheat, to deceive. Cf. disabuse, v.…

transitive. To deceive.

transitive. To divert the attention of (a person) in order to mislead; to distract from the facts or real state of affairs; to delude, cheat…

transitive. To deceive by a wile; to beguile, delude. Obsolete. rare (except as implied in other senses).

trans. To deceive, cheat.

To befool the mind or judgement of, so as to cause what is false to be accepted as true; to bring by deceit into a false opinion or belief; to…

To deceive, beguile, or mislead (a person).

transitive. To deceive, cheat; to elude, slip from. (= Latin fallere.)

In the same sense the simple verb was used.

To blind, hoodwink; (cf. inveigle, v.).

transitive. To deceive; to disappoint.

transitive. Now slang. To outdo, outwit; to deceive.

To beguile or deceive thoroughly.

transitive. To impair the sight of; to blind; (also figurative) to deceive, beguile, delude.

transitive ? To dazzle or daze with light; figurative to blind. Obsolete.

To deceive.

Here perhaps representing Old Norse blekkja ‘to impose upon, deceive,’ = Old English blęncan to blench, v.1

transitive. To overcome the judgement of; to deceive, take in. In passive: to be deceived or mistaken. Obsolete.

transitive. nonce-use. To deceive, cheat (Latin fallĕre).

To hoodwink, gull, cheat. Obsolete.

transitive. To deceive, cheat, bilk. Cf. blench, v.1 1.to blanch of: to cheat or do out of. Obsolete.

transitive. To mock, deceive, cheat.

transitive. To deceive. Obsolete. rare.

figurative. To blindfold mentally; to prevent (any one) from seeing the truth or fact; to ‘throw dust in the eyes’ of, deceive, humbug.

transitive. To trick, deceive, cheat; to embarrass, puzzle, perplex. Now rare.

transitive. To deceive, cheat.

transitive. slang. To cheat, trick. Obsolete.

transitive. To cheat or deceive (a person). Cf. to wipe a person's nose at nose, n. phrases 2c(b).

transitive. To cheat, deceive.

To deceive, impose upon, trick.

To deceive by a sham story or trick, or by flattery; also, to flam off, up. Obsolete exc. dialect or U.S.

slang. transitive. To cheat or swindle (out of). Obsolete.

gen. To deceive, cheat, trick, delude (obsolete); to cheat (one's) expectation; to prove false or faithless to (any one): to ‘throw over’ or discard…

Dice. transitive and intransitive. To retain one of the dice at the top of the box by unfair manipulation, to palm the die: cf. top, n.1 21…

transitive. To cheat, trick, ‘take in’.

To balk (hope, expectation); to cheat, deceive, betray.

to get over by jugglery, to cheat.

transitive. To impose upon, deceive. rare.

To cheat or defraud. Obsolete.

trans. (colloq.) To deceive, to overreach, ‘take in.’ Now only in pass. Cf. bite, n. 9.

transitive (in passive in quot.). To deceive.

transitive. To cheat, trick.

transitive. colloquial. To deceive, fool, trick. Frequently in passive.

transitive. colloquial. To deceive, cheat, take in. Cf. to have on 1 at phrasal verbs. Usually in passive.

transitive. Scottish. To deceive or trick (a person); to defeat or subvert by trickery; (also) to distort (an issue, question, etc.) in a cunning…

transitive. To cheat, to swindle.

transitive. To deceive or trick.

transitive. To deceive (someone). Now rare.

dialect and slang. To take in, cheat, deceive.

transitive. To deceive, fool, trick; to play a joke on, make fun of.

transitive. To put blinkers on; figurative to blind, hoodwink, deceive.

transitive. colloquial (originally English regional (northern)). To deceive or attempt to deceive, esp. humorously or playfully; ‘to pull (someone's)…

transitive. To talk to (a person) persuasively; to achieve or gain (something) by means of persuasive, esp. disingenuous talk. More generally: to…

transitive. To deceive, beguile, cheat.

transitive (often in passive). To deceive, confuse, or astound (a person or group); to bamboozle, bewilder.

‘So help’ in the oath ‘so help me God’: see so, adv. conj.19.

U.S. slang. To ‘pull the wool over the eyes of’: see quot. 1890.

transitive. To deceive, fool, or trick (a person).

transitive. To mislead, to deceive, to ‘kid’; to taunt or sneer at. Also intransitive, to talk jive, to talk nonsense, to act foolishly.

transitive. slang. To deceive; to tease, to kid; also in phrase I shit you not. Also intransitive: to tell lies, to exaggerate.

transitive (a) to deceive by a smokescreen; (b) to conceal or divert attention from by a smokescreen.

transitive. To cheat (a person); to deceive; to betray. Cf. to dick over at phrasal verbs 1.