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hoodwink
Overview of verb hoodwink
The verb hoodwink has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. juggle, beguile, hoodwink -- (influence by slyness)
2. bamboozle, snow, hoodwink, pull the wool over someone's eyes, lead by the nose, play false -- (conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end; "He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well")
Antonyms of verb hoodwink
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb hoodwink
2 senses of hoodwink
Sense 1
juggle, beguile, hoodwink
=> cheat, rip off, chisel
=> victimize, victimise
=> wrong
=> treat, handle, do by
=> interact
=> act, move
Sense 2
bamboozle, snow, hoodwink, pull the wool over someone's eyes, lead by the nose, play false
=> deceive, betray, lead astray
=> misinform, mislead
=> inform
=> communicate, intercommunicate
=> interact
=> act, move
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb hoodwink
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb hoodwink
2 senses of hoodwink
Sense 1
juggle, beguile, hoodwink
=> cheat, rip off, chisel
Sense 2
bamboozle, snow, hoodwink, pull the wool over someone's eyes, lead by the nose, play false
=> deceive, betray, lead astray
'Cause To' of verb hoodwink
Derived Forms of verb hoodwink
Domain of verb hoodwink
Domain Terms of verb hoodwink
Familiarity of verb hoodwink
hoodwink used as a verb is rare (polysemy count =2)
Sample Sentences of verb hoodwink
2 senses of hoodwink
Sense 1
juggle, beguile, hoodwink
*> Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 2
bamboozle, snow, hoodwink, pull the wool over someone's eyes, lead by the nose, play false
*> Somebody ----s somebody
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb hoodwink
2 senses of hoodwink
Sense 1
juggle, beguile, hoodwink
> cheat, rip off, chisel
=> gazump
=> cozen
=> overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume, pluck, rob, hook
=> victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con
=> bilk
=> beat, bunk
=> whipsaw
=> welsh
=> juggle, beguile, hoodwink
Sense 2
bamboozle, snow, hoodwink, pull the wool over someone's eyes, lead by the nose, play false
> deceive, betray, lead astray
=> pose, impersonate, personate
=> bamboozle, snow, hoodwink, pull the wool over someone's eyes, lead by the nose, play false
=> gull, dupe, slang, befool, cod, fool, put on, take in, put one over, put one across
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb hoodwink
Sense 1
juggle, beguile, hoodwink
=> cheat, rip off, chisel
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Sense 2
bamboozle, snow, hoodwink, pull the wool over someone's eyes, lead by the nose, play false
=> deceive, betray, lead astray
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Grep of verb hoodwink
hoodwink
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