| 单词 | deceive |
| 释义 | deceive (once / 131 pages) v To deceive means to trick or lie. A crafty kid might deceive his mother into thinking he has a fever by holding the thermometer to a light bulb to increase the temperature. Deceive is the trickier cousin of lie. You might lie about why you were late to school. But if you simply don't explain to your mom that you were late in the first place, you are deceiving her. Deceive carries with it a feeling of both craftiness and betrayal. When you deceive someone, forgiveness can be hard to come by. Have you heard of the spelling rule, "i before e except after c" that has so many exceptions? Well, deceive follows that rule. WORD FAMILYdeceive: deceived, deceiver, deceives, deceiving, deception, deceptive, undeceive+/deceiver: deceivers/deceiving: deceivingly/deception: deceptions, self-deception/deceptive: deceptively, deceptiveness/undeceive: undeceived, undeceives, undeceiving USAGE EXAMPLESThe suspect is facing charges of obstruction, false imprisonment, destruction of private property, impersonation to deceive law enforcement and two out-of-state felony warrants. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) One of them later posted online: "How easy it is to deceive people, and how those who should carefully check information actually don't." BBC(Dec 29, 2016) This is unusual for a man trained to deceive and mislead, a man who is practiced in his profession. New York Times(Dec 26, 2016) 1v cause someone to believe an untruth The insurance company deceived me when they told me they were covering my house Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper betray, lead astray undeceive free from deception or illusion impersonate, personate, pose pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions bamboozle, hoodwink, lead by the nose, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, snowconceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end befool, cod, dupe, fool, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take infool or hoax masqueradepretend to be someone or something that you are not kid, pull the leg oftell false information to for fun misinform, mislead give false or misleading information to 2v be false to; be dishonest with Syn|Hypo|Hyper cozen, delude, lead on betray, sell deliver to an enemy by treachery cheat, chiselengage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud shillact as a shill flim-flam, fob, fox, play a joke on, play a trick on, play tricks, pull a fast one on, trickdeceive somebody befool, fool, gullmake a fool or dupe of betray, cheat, cheat on, cuckold, wanderbe sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage hoax, play a joke on, pull someone's legsubject to a playful hoax or joke ensnare, entrap, frame, set uptake or catch as if in a snare or trap humbugtrick or deceive double crossbetray by double-dealing jobprofit privately from public office and official business sharkplay the shark; act with trickery rig, set uparrange the outcome of by means of deceit cozenact with artful deceit cribuse a crib, as in an exam two-timecarry on a romantic relationship with two people at the same time cook, fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangletamper, with the purpose of deception snookerfool or dupe fool around, play aroundcommit adultery victimise, victimize make a victim of |
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