1. To delude by guile, artifice, or craft; to deceive or impose on, as by a false statement; to lure.
2. To elude, or evade by craft; to foil.
3. To cause the time of to pass without notice; to divert.

1. To defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit; SYN. chouse, shaft, screw, chicane, jockey.
2. To deprive somebody of something by deceit; SYN. beat, rip off, sell short.
3. To engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud.

1. To act with artful deceit.
2. To cheat or trick.
3. To coax or deceive by trickery.

1. To be false to; be dishonest with; SYN. lead on, delude, cozen.
2. To cause someone to believe an untruth; SYN. betray, lead astray.

1. To lead from truth or into error; to mislead the mind or judgment of to beguile; to impose on; to dupe; to make a fool of.
2. To frustrate or disappoint.

1. To deceive; to trick.
2. To duplicate.

To make a fool or dupe of; SYN. dupe, gull, befool.

To deceive by false appearance.

(Homonym: lye).
(Irregular preterit, past participle: lied).
1. To tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive.
2. To make an untrue statement with intent to deceive.
3. To create a false or misleading impression.
4. To bring about by telling lies.

1. To lead someone in the wrong direction; SYN. misguide, lead astray.
2. To lead astray; give a wrong impression

To make mysterious

To beat through cleverness and wit; SYN. overreach, outsmart, outfox, beat, circumvent.

To pull a fast one, play a trick on somebody; SYN. fob, fox.