deceive
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 7
Definition of deceive
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)To trick or mislead.
“It feels painful to begin seeing clearly, that you’ve been deceived by the very people and institutions you trusted to guide you.”
“I know—for Death, who comes for me From regions of the blest afar, Where there is nothing to deceive, Hath left his iron gate ajar, […]”
“Hungry for fame and the approval of rare-animal collector Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), Darwin deceives the Captain and his crew into believing they can get enough booty to win the pirate competition by entering Polly in a science fair. So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest reads simply “I hate pirates.””
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English deceyven, from Anglo-Norman deceivre, from Latin dēcipiō (“to deceive; beguile; entrap”), from dē- (“from”) + capiō (“to seize”); see captive. Compare conceive, perceive, receive. Displaced native Old English beswīcan.
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