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transitive verb. 1. : to cause to accept as true or valid what is false or invalid. deceiving customers about the condition of the cars. bluffing at poker in order to deceive the other players. 2. archaic : ensnare. … he it was whose guile … deceived the mother of mankind …. John Milton.
deceive The cigarette companies deceived the public about the health risks of cigarettes. deceive yourself You'd be deceiving yourself if you believed that. trick She felt they had tricked her into saying more than she intended. fool You don't fool me with your innocent act. take in They claimed to be destitute, but we weren't taken in.
DECEIVED definition: 1. past simple and past participle of deceive 2. to persuade someone that something false is the…. Learn more.
to persuade someone that something false is the truth, or to keep the truth hidden from someone for your own advantage: The company deceived customers by selling old computers as new ones. deceive someone into doing something The sound of the door closing deceived me into thinking they had gone out. Synonym. trick.
Definition of deceive verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
deceive in American English. (dɪˈsiv) (verb-ceived, -ceiving) transitive verb. 1. to mislead by a false appearance or statement; delude. They deceived the enemy by disguising the destroyer as a freighter. 2. to be unfaithful to (one's spouse or lover) 3.archaic.
These verbs mean to cause someone to believe something untrue, usually with an ulterior motive in mind. Deceive, the most general, stresses the deliberate misrepresentation of what one knows to be true: "We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know, because they have never deceived us" (Samuel Johnson).
