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单词 faking out
释义

fake out

verb

faked out; faking out; fakes out

transitive verb

: to deliberately mislead : fool, trick

Synonyms

  • bamboozle
  • beguile
  • bluff
  • buffalo
  • burn
  • catch
  • con
  • cozen
  • deceive
  • delude
  • dupe
  • fool
  • gaff
  • gammon
  • gull
  • have
  • have on [chiefly British]
  • hoax
  • hoodwink
  • hornswoggle
  • humbug
  • juggle
  • misguide
  • misinform
  • mislead
  • snooker
  • snow
  • spoof
  • string along
  • suck in
  • sucker
  • take in
  • trick
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Example Sentences

my friends faked me out for a whole day, letting me think that they had forgotten my birthday used a quick between-the-legs dribble to fake out the flat-footed defender

Word History

First Known Use

1949, in the meaning defined above

faking out

verb

present participle of fake out
1
as in deceiving
to cause to believe what is untrue my friends faked me out for a whole day, letting me think that they had forgotten my birthday

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • deceiving
  • tricking
  • fooling
  • sucking in
  • stringing along
  • taking in
  • having on
  • kidding
  • doing a number on
  • leading one up the garden path
  • pulling one's leg
  • pulling the wool over one's eyes
  • teasing
  • leading one down the garden path
  • gammoning
  • misleading
  • hornswoggling
  • buffaloing
  • juggling
  • putting on
  • duping
  • humbugging
  • deluding
  • bluffing
  • stinging
  • having
  • cheating
  • hoaxing
  • misguiding
  • catching
  • gulling
  • misinforming
  • snowing
  • conning
  • suckering
  • beguiling
  • spoofing
  • cozening
  • burning
  • hoodwinking
  • bamboozling
  • gaffing
  • snookering
  • sticking
  • euchring
  • bleeding
  • defrauding
  • mulcting
  • shortchanging
  • swindling
  • rooking
  • flimflamming
  • fleecing
  • hustling
  • chiseling
  • skinning
  • diddling
  • squeezing
  • chiselling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • showing up
  • revealing
  • exposing
  • uncovering
  • debunking
  • unmasking
  • disclosing
  • undeceiving
  • telling
  • divulging
  • unveiling
  • uncloaking
  • disillusioning
  • disabusing
  • disenchanting
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2
as in evading
to elude (an opponent in a sports contest) by making a deceptive or agile movement used a quick between-the-legs dribble to fake out the flat-footed defender

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • evading
  • dekeing
  • dodging
  • faking
  • juking
  • slipping
  • pump-faking
  • maneuvering (around)
  • sidestepping
  • stutter-stepping
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