cozen+overreach
71trick — I. n. 1. Artifice, stratagem, wile, cheat, dodge, doubling, fraud, chicane, blind, feint, manaeuvre, deceit, imposition, imposture, deception, juggle, reach, shuffle, hocus pocus, swindle, chouse, fetch, humbug, hoax, cog, gammon, cunning… …
72deceive — deceive, mislead, delude, beguile, betray, double crossmean to lead astray or into evil or to frustrate by under handedness or craft. A person or thing deceives one by leading one to take something false as true, something nonexistent as real,… …
73defraud — swindle, overreach, *cheat, cozen Analogous words: trick, bamboozle, hoax, gull, *dupe, befool: outwit, circumvent, foil (see FRUSTRATE) …
74dupe — vb Dupe, gull, befool, trick, hoax, hoodwink, bamboozle mean to delude a person by underhand means or for one s own ends. Dupe suggests unwariness or unsuspiciousness on the part of the person or persons deluded and the acceptance of what is… …
75hoodwink — vb hoax, trick, *dupe, gull, befool, bamboozle Analogous words: delude, *deceive, mislead: cozen, *cheat, overreach: *confuse, muddle, fuddle, befuddle: baffle, outwit, circumvent (see FRUSTRATE) …
76swindle — vb *cheat, overreach, cozen, defraud Analogous words: *dupe, gull, bamboozle, hoodwink, trick: *steal, pilfer, purloin, filch …
77bamboozle — v 1.Often bamboozle into delude, deceive, beguile, mislead, U.S. Sl. con; hoodwink, pull the wool over [s.o. s] eyes, cozen, bluff, take in; fool, befool, dupe, hoax, humbug, Brit. Inf. gammon; seduce, charm, flatter, lie to; lure, allure, entice …
78befool — v 1. fool, dupe, hoax, humbug, Brit. Inf. gammon; bamboozle, delude, deceive, beguile, mislead; hoodwink, pull the wool over [s.o. s] eyes, cozen, bluff, take in; seduce, charm, lie to; lure, allure, entice, induce, inveigle. 2. trick, spoof,… …
79cheat — n 1. cheater, swindler, fraud, confidence man, Sl. con man, Sl. flim flam man, crook, chiseler; fake, phony, humbug, trickster, inveigler, bam boozler, dissembler, bluff, pettifogger; sharper, sharpie, shark, bilker, diddler; adventurer, rogue,… …
80deceive — v mislead, misinform, misguide, sail under false colors; delude, fool, take in, throw dust in the eyes of, pull the wool over the eyes of, Inf. slip or pass [s.t.] over on, slip or pass one over on; cozen, dupe, gull, defraud, cheat; rook,… …
