| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To cheat, hoodwink, beguile, bamboozle or delude.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To lure or allure. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To mislead, baffle, betray, mystify or outwit. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To overreach or outfox. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To impose, demarcate or stick. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To disappoint or falsify. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To fool, dupe, gull, jockey or chicane. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To trick, hoax, humbug, spoof or rook. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To bluff.[Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Present participle conjugation of the verb deceive.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (deceive) | 1. Be false to; be dishonest with.[Wordnet]. 2. Cause someone to believe an untruth; "The insurance company deceived me when they told me they were covering my house".[Wordnet]. 3. To lead into error; to cause to believe what is false, or disbelieve what is true; to impose upon; to mislead; to cheat; to disappoint; to delude; to insnare.[Websters]. 4. To beguile; to amuse, so as to divert the attention; to while away; to take away as if by deception.[Websters]. 5. To deprive by fraud or stealth; to defraud.[Websters]. 6. Base verb from the following inflections: deceiving, deceived, deceives, deceiver, deceivers, deceivingly and deceivedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being mocking.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being frustrating or disillusioning. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being beguiling. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being misleading, fallacious, delusive, illusory or illusive. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being dishonest, treacherous, erroneous, false or fake. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being crafty or cunning. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being blinding or dazzling. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being tempting or enticing.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "DECEIVING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Specialty Definition: DECEIVING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Misleading; ensnaring; beguiling; cheating.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of deceive. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: deceive
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| To deceive | Law | TO DECEIVE. To induce another either by words or actions, to take that for true which is not so. Wolff, Inst. Nat. §356. (references) | |
| To deceive | MultiLingual Slang | Dutch (belazeren, besodemieteren, bedonderen). (references) | |
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