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Verb
Present participle for to cheat, deceive or defraud someone for personal gain
Present participle for to deceive or fool someone
Present participle for to learn by heart, or commit to memory
(
rare
)
Present participle for to study or examine carefully, especially in order to gain knowledge of
Present participle for to alter something from its true state, typically to deceive
Present participle for to use coaxing or flattery in order to persuade someone to do something
Present participle for to tell a lie or something that is untrue
Present participle for to navigate or pilot a vehicle or vessel
Present participle for to acquire new information or skill
Present participle for to speak ambiguously, unclearly or doubtfully, especially with intent to deceive
Present participle for to apply oneself to study
Present participle for to (excessively) boast about one's accomplishments, qualities, or possessions
Present participle for to acquire knowledge on an issue
Noun
A deceptive tactic, resembling a con, ripoff, or scam, involving false promises or exaggerations
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Verb
▲
Present participle for to cheat, deceive or defraud someone for personal gain
cheating
defrauding
swindling
fleecing
stiffing
bilking
diddling
suckering
cozening
stinging
hustling
skinning
flimflamming
rooking
victimising
UK
victimizing
US
bleeding
doing
shortchanging
screwing
fiddling
hosing
sticking
mulcting
squeezing
shorting
chiseling
US
chiselling
UK
gaffing
skunking
reaming
chousing
thimblerigging
euchring
tricking
plucking
deceiving
nobbling
duping
beating
bamboozling
hoodwinking
fooling
scamming
misleading
gulling
exploiting
finagling
hoaxing
milking
deluding
embezzling
gazumping
chicaning
buncoing
swizzling
hornswoggling
swizzing
inveigling
entrapping
wheedling
kidding
humbugging
cajoling
coaxing
luring
buttying
ripping off
shaking down
doing in
double-crossing
taking advantage of
taking for a ride
putting one over on
stringing along
pulling a fast one on
taking to the cleaners
selling a pup
selling a pup to
doing the dirty on
sweet-talking
pulling a fast one
screwing over
beguiling
snookering
taking in
having
burning
bluffing
snowing
misguiding
misinforming
spoofing
buffaloing
juggling
gammoning
faking out
sucking in
catching
having on
shafting
outwitting
pulling a swifty on
betraying
leading up the garden path
pulling the wool over someone's eyes
leading on
doing a number on
robbing
overreaching
pulling one's leg
clipping
outfoxing
illuding
gouging
sandbagging
outmaneuvering
US
roping in
leading down the garden path
overcharging
outmanoeuvring
UK
stealing
ensnaring
selling
giving someone a bum steer
foxing
leading astray
outthinking
outsmarting
rushing
stitching up
goldbricking
selling down the river
circumventing
befooling
making a fool of
baiting
selling a bill of goods to
short-changing
outslicking
outdoing
jiving
seducing
manipulating
topping
defeating
setting up
taking
outguessing
disinforming
baffling
fudging
juking
imposing on
mousetrapping
jockeying
lying to
getting the better of
doing out of
putting on
double-dealing
soaking
outjockeying
outplaying
extorting
crossing
misdirecting
shucking
prevaricating
misstating
outgeneralling
outgeneraling
capping
trapping
lying
confusing
faking
jerking around
misrepresenting
running a game on
bewildering
jipping
worsting
perverting
figuring out
selling out
stealing a march on
stabbing in the back
putting on the wrong track
throwing off the scent
pulling
wringing
plundering
thwarting
trimming
hooking
framing
pilfering
manoeuvring
UK
maneuvering
US
disappointing
backstabbing
playing
using
outperforming
blackmailing
lulling
decoying
selling a bill of goods
balking
US
baulking
UK
taking to cleaners
besting
wangling
catching out
fabricating
distorting
propagandizing
US
sucking dry
propagandising
UK
two-timing
doing someone in the eye
pulling fast one
four-flushing
beating out of
running rings round
conning out of
playing for a sucker
making rings round
double dealing
covering up
preying on
fixing
putting on an act
putting on false front
pulling strings
playing games
sending on a wild goose chase
putting up smoke screen
giving wrong information to
wrong steering
playing trick on
leading up garden path
frauding
gipping
weaseling
US
weaselling
UK
heisting
filching
stumping
extracting
pigeoning
grifting
shamming
blagging
impoverishing
pauperizing
surcharging
finessing
nicking
padding
bunking
playing games with
wresting
wrenching
expelling
forcing
strong-arming
falsifying
putting the screws to
throwing
sucking the life out of
enmeshing
entangling
welshing
playing away
crossing up
psyching out
playing joke on
taking for ride
surpassing
excelling
playing a trick on
swaying
contriving
making a sucker of
charging too much
play-acting
dallying
trifling
toying
outclassing
outflanking
pulling wool over
wantoning
doing number on
impressing
bleeding dry
suckering into
handing a line
pulling someone's leg
playing for a fool
flamming
giving the wrong impression
hocus-pocusing
putting someone up to something
failing
biasing
US
biassing
UK
stealing someone blind
rooking out of
splitting
going back on
stepping out
depriving
gaslighting
trifling with
toying with
dallying with
playing with
tearing from
bleeding someone of something
slipping something over on
making use of
playing fast and loose with
cribbing
belirting
roguing
lirting
blenching
rogueing
playing dirty
bending the rules
stacking the cards
stretching the rules
pulling something funny
hitting below the belt
giving the runaround
sending on a wild-goose chase
letting down
enticing
playing someone false
tempting
breaking faith with
alluring
stage-managing
pulling wires
twisting around your little finger
taking out
persuading
breaking the rules
giving bum steer
intimidating
soliciting
beclowning
inducing
molesting
harassing
hounding
pressuring
ingratiating
pressing
wiling
terrorizing
US
attacking
making a monkey of
making somebody look an idiot
making a monkey out of
steering
terrorising
UK
tolling
talking into
fascinating
picking on
snaring
ensorcelling
touting
rigging
going one better than
coming on
doctoring
putting one over
planting
cooking
managing
tricking out of
robbing of
depriving of
stripping of
dispossessing of
swindling out of
cheating out of
more ❯
“Gray is also being charged with developing a scheme to
con
the couple out of their retirement fund.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to deceive or fool someone
deceiving
tricking
fooling
duping
misleading
hoodwinking
deluding
hoaxing
bamboozling
beguiling
bluffing
misguiding
cozening
gulling
misinforming
suckering
snookering
having
gaffing
humbugging
hornswoggling
snowing
spoofing
gammoning
buffaloing
juggling
burning
catching
taking in
having on
stringing along
faking out
sucking in
cheating
defrauding
swindling
stiffing
bilking
fleecing
diddling
stinging
rooking
hustling
flimflamming
doing
victimizing
US
skinning
shortchanging
screwing
bleeding
fiddling
hosing
mulcting
sticking
shorting
squeezing
chiseling
US
chiselling
UK
skunking
euchring
reaming
chousing
thimblerigging
plucking
nobbling
beating
victimising
UK
ripping off
shaking down
doing in
more ❯
“I
con
him into thinking I've got connections with a fixer.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to learn by heart, or commit to memory
learning
memorising
UK
memorizing
US
studying
remembering
retaining
committing to memory
learning by heart
learning by rote
becoming word-perfect in
getting off pat
impressing on the memory
recalling
recollecting
storing
nailing down
knowing by heart
fixing in the mind
learning off
getting by heart
absorbing
minding
keeping in mind
bearing in mind
keeping in one's memory
calling to mind
thinking of
succeeding in remembering
knowing
mastering
cramming
keeping forever
making a note of
learning word for word
learning off by heart
having down pat
getting off by heart
having off pat
learning parrot-fashion
getting something word-perfect
learning verbatim
“And to
con
by rote is to commit to memory by an operation of mind similar to the turning of a wheel.”
Verb
▲
(
rare
)
Present participle for to study or examine carefully, especially in order to gain knowledge of
inspecting
examining
scrutinising
UK
scrutinizing
US
scanning
surveying
reviewing
viewing
auditing
overlooking
overseeing
checking out
studying
checking
looking over
perusing
eyeballing
poring over
analyzing
US
vetting
analysing
UK
scoping
investigating
looking at
checking over
eyeing
eying
casing
assessing
appraising
reading
exploring
searching
probing
going over
taking stock of
giving the once-over
going over with a fine-tooth comb
observing
watching
contemplating
canvassing
considering
recceing
skimming
browsing
evaluating
working over
dipping into
skimming through
running your eye over
going through
giving something a going-over
researching
sweeping
clocking
regarding
sifting
dissecting
prospecting
surfing
inquiring
enquiring
UK
assaying
reconnoitering
US
glancing over
supervising
staring at
gazing at
reconnoitring
UK
superintending
getting a load of
looking into
enquiring into
sizing up
looking through
inquiring into
taking a dekko at
leafing through
examining closely
putting under a microscope
flicking through
taking a look at
casting an eye over
weighing up
wading through
thumbing through
giving something a once-over
glancing through
subjecting to an examination
browsing through
adjudicating
judging
scouring
raking
verifying
following
glassing
taking stock
digging into
delving into
checking into
flipping through
referring to
devouring
burying oneself in
ploughing through
flashing
rumbling
looking
riffling
riffing
beholding
seeing
estimating
running over
glancing at
running through
triangulating
gaging
US
summarising
UK
sizing
summarizing
US
gauging
UK
graphing
charting
plotting
valuating
screening
having a look-see
taking a gander
giving the once over
looking upon
mapping out
staking out
scoping out
checking up
eyeing up
parsing
looking up and down
testing
winnowing
underseeing
scouting
questioning
noticing
monitoring
searching into
looking see
looking at carefully
sifting through
interrogating
catechizing
giving something a look-see
kicking the tires
subjecting to an inspection
weighing
digging
combing
penetrating
perlustrating
piercing
candling
staring
pegging
smoking
examining carefully
burning up
taking the measure of
going into
pondering
checking up on
delving
sussing out
chewing over
querying
anatomizing
thinking about
frisking
interpreting
thinking through
spying
making enquiries into
picking apart
sounding out
valuing
mulling over
nosing around
conducting investigations into
deconstructing
brainstorming
probing into
excogitating
pursuing
trying to get to the bottom of
following up
seeking
breaking down
discussing
poking around
testing the waters
conducting an enquiry into
prying into
conducting an investigation into
rating
making a survey of
deliberating
figuring
poking
enquiring about
reconning
taking a look
making enquiries about
criticizing
US
comparing
making inquiry
finding out
diving into
brooding over
cutting
feeling out
measuring
picking at
determining
criticising
UK
summing up
scouting out
sorting through
sorting out
searching for
opening up
running down
cross-examining
inquiring about
looking around
going through with a fine-tooth comb
making a recce of
calculating
tackling
separating
having a look
patrolling
fathoming
experimenting
bugging
tapping
setting
guesstimating
resolving
kicking around
proving
consulting
counting
finding out about
nitpicking
asking questions about
thinking over
listening in
reading into
deliberating on
balancing
doing research
looking something over
reading up on
spying out
dividing
looking for
asking questions of
doing research into
making inquiries about
putting to the test
putting questions to
putting out feelers
looking up
searching the evidence concerning
sifting the evidence concerning
making enquiries
making a reconnaissance of
having a look at
conducting an enquiry
diving in
taking apart
dipped one's toe in the water
making an observation of
following a line of investigation
seeing how the land lies
taking a shufti round
casing the joint
reflecting on
finding out the lie of the land
seeking an answer
looking round
asking about
palpating
muckraking
underseeking
wiretapping
contextualizing
US
contextualising
UK
stagging
getting down to brass tacks
covering
perceiving
discerning
checking something out
diagnosing
grading
tracking
talking about
establishing
questing
esteeming
treating
passing through
reflecting
identifying
reading through
snooping
turning
debating
meditating
cogitating
perpending
revolving
ruminating
decomposing
decompounding
prying
trying
certifying
noting
confirming
ascertaining
investigating it
spying on
looking out
critiquing
poring
reading over
looking on
thinking of
wrestling with
entertaining
conducting research into
taking a look at it
casting your eye over
keeping an eye out
telling
passing under review
memorizing
US
memorising
UK
digging deeper
digging deep
wading into
leaving no stone unturned
picking over
ensuring
quizzing
correcting
boning up
unpacking
spotting
turning over
having a look around
reading intently
testing out
trying out
hunting
skirring
delving in
hunting through
leaving no stone unturned in
keeping under surveillance
keeping tabs
consulting the archives
looking closely
shaking down
making sure of
keeping account
classing
panning
drilling
mining
dowsing
having a tour of
going on a tour of
having a look round
touring
conducting a survey of
thinking out
giving opinion
unraveling
US
comprehending
unravelling
UK
tracking down
classifying
keeping an eye on
giving the eagle eye
taking inventory
playing around with
making inquiries
doing tests
rustling up
running reconnaissance
making a reconnaissance
scouting around
looking out for
setting eyes on
taking in
finding fault
picking holes
giving an opinion
patting down
passing judgment on
commenting upon
understanding
grasping
sounding
going after
quartering
thumbing
knowing
reporting on
estimating the value of
carrying out a valuation of
dissolving
leafing
computing
flipping
spot-checking
double-checking
ranking
plumbing
numbering
glancing
laying bare
enumerating
regulating
considering it
reconsidering
ciphering
summing
budgeting
setting a figure
calculating roughly
accounting for
reexamining
rechecking
overhauling
debugging
revisiting
turning the pages
speed-reading
getting the cream
getting the lie of the land
having a quick look at
going once over lightly
hitting the high spots
brushing over
reading quickly
reading swiftly
getting to the bottom of
contrasting
pricing
taking soundings
adjudging
re-examining
juxtaposing
mulling it over
reflecting on it
thinking about it
thinking it over
giving it some thought
deeming
differentiating
collating
stripping down
giving something a check-up
correlating
figuring out
setting at
figuring in
taking account of
having one's number
paralleling
competing
parallelling
balancing the differences between
setting side by side
setting against
standing the pace
measuring the differences between
weighing the differences between
standing the test
stacking up against
weighing against another
weighing against
matching
matching up
opposing
putting side by side
confronting
measuring up
hanging
segregating
placing in juxtaposition
referring
checking in
checking on
searching through
seeking information from
turning to
searching in
looking something up in
getting back to
chasing up
more ❯
“The hawk rested on a crag of the gorge and
conned
the terrain with a fierce and frowning eye.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to alter something from its true state, typically to deceive
falsifying
misrepresenting
distorting
perverting
fudging
misstating
manipulating
altering
faking
cooking
doctoring
warping
twisting
garbling
coloring
US
misinterpreting
changing
rigging
slanting
bending
fabricating
fiddling
forging
misrelating
misreporting
lying
fixing
massaging
prevaricating
deceiving
exaggerating
belying
equivocating
colouring
UK
fibbing
adulterating
misquoting
embroidering
embellishing
corrupting
paltering
counterfeiting
contorting
debasing
vitiating
promoting
glossing
deaconing
tampering with
putting a spin on
trumping up
faking it
framing up
biasing
US
biassing
UK
disguising
skewing
snowing
quoting out of context
taking out of context
prejudicing
spinning
misleading
dissembling
misconstruing
whitewashing
misspeaking
putting the wrong slant on
stretching the truth
overstating
confusing
straining
overdrawing
angling
mangling
miscoloring
concealing
stretching
puffing
dressing
cloaking
masking
travestying
parodying
giving a false account of
building up
giving a false idea of
covering up
passing off
blowing smoke
interfering with
tinkering with
juggling
fiddling with
modifying
transforming
amending
muddling
mistranslating
misrendering
misattributing
meddling with
messing about with
putting words in someone's mouth
influencing
magnifying
varnishing
padding
quoting incorrectly
cooking the books
doctoring up
weighting
giving a false impression of
moulding
UK
shaping
molding
US
weighing
tampering
patching
twisting someone's words
slurring
jumbling
obscuring
blurring
cooking up
mixing up
twisting around
finagling
flimflamming
diddling
dramatizing
US
overdoing
enhancing
shuffling
trimming
rearranging
dissimulating
hyperbolizing
affecting
poisoning
airbrushing
romanticizing
US
dramatising
UK
romanticising
UK
revamping
reworking
revising
editing
changing round
subverting
cutting
alloying
desecrating
making adjustments to
making changes to
making alterations to
performing magic
elaborating on
glossing over
varnishing over
touching up
giving a false picture of
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to use coaxing or flattery in order to persuade someone to do something
wheedling
cajoling
coaxing
persuading
enticing
inveigling
luring
tempting
beguiling
influencing
inducing
blarneying
seducing
blandishing
charming
flattering
urging
convincing
swaying
palavering
getting
drawing
talking
worming
making
arguing
coercing
finagling
oiling
snowing
soaping
courting
prodding
reasoning
sweet-talking
soft-soaping
prevailing on
talking into
smooth-talking
winning over
buttering up
getting round
bringing round
working on
sweetening up
softening up
alluring
pressing
hooking
wangling
bartering
importuning
arguing into
prevailing upon
arm-twisting
roping in
wooing
encouraging
decoying
maneuvering
US
manoeuvring
UK
jawboning
teasing
soothing
pestering
plaguing
honeying
selling
softening
coming on
talking someone into something
twisting one's arm
soliciting
attracting
inviting
instigating
inciting
moving
provoking
getting around
ingratiating
entreating
getting next to
jollying
working over
bantering
appeasing
begging
tantalizing
US
captivating
laying it on
spreading it on
stroking
tantalising
UK
wiling
flattering into
whetting
actuating
sucking in
bringing around
motivating
squeezing
bringing
coaxing into
inspiring
exerting influence on
activating
wheedling into
triggering
putting someone up to something
bulldozing
converting
drawing in
prompting
stimulating
steamrolling
impelling
prodding into
cajoling into
selling one on
betraying
baiting
leading on
appealing to
entrapping
tolling
batting eyes at
leading astray
turning on
dangling a carrot in front of
more ❯
Verb
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Present participle for to tell a lie or something that is untrue
fibbing
lying
prevaricating
fabricating
misrepresenting
falsifying
faking
equivocating
deceiving
pretending
exaggerating
dissimulating
dissembling
feigning
paltering
inventing
concocting
perjuring
jiving
kidding
planting
telling stories
telling untruths
stretching the truth
departing from the truth
telling a lie
forswearing oneself
making up a story
inventing a story
not telling the truth
trumping up
making up
telling a terminological inexactitude
creating fiction
telling a fib
speaking with forked tongue
pulling the wool over someone's eyes
telling a little white lie
pulling someone's leg
misleading
deluding
bluffing
hoodwinking
misinforming
hoaxing
misspeaking
misstating
misguiding
beguiling
duping
tricking
bulling
fudging
overdrawing
perverting
snowing
misinstructing
gaslighting
distorting
forswearing
telling a falsehood
telling an untruth
stringing along
concocting a story
faking it
having on
saying something untrue
perjuring oneself
putting on the wrong track
breaking promise
committing perjury
bearing false witness
throwing off the scent
putting up a front
putting on
sending on a wild goose chase
leading astray
BSing
telling a white lie
lacking candor
giving the wrong impression
forging
simulating
hatching
telling untruth
creating out of thin air
dreaming up
conjuring up
devising
lying under oath
swearing falsely
more ❯
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Present participle for to navigate or pilot a vehicle or vessel
steering
piloting
navigating
driving
helming
controlling
maneuvering
US
manoeuvring
UK
sailing
aviating
conducting
flying
coxswaining
coxing
captaining
skippering
directing
guiding
handling
circumnavigating
ferrying
cruising
charting
operating
plotting
boating
heading out
taking the helm of
shipping out
riding out
traversing
crossing
sailing across
riding
pedalling
UK
pedaling
US
propelling
travelling through
traveling through
passing through
Verb
▲
Present participle for to acquire new information or skill
learning
attaining
grasping
mastering
receiving
absorbing
acquiring
gaining
getting
imbibing
assimilating
comprehending
digesting
pursuing
calculating
noting
observing
perceiving
taking
determining
enrolling
picking up
reading
reviewing
swotting
understanding
acquiring a knowledge of
acquiring skill in
applying oneself to
apprenticing
becoming competent in
becoming expert in
becoming proficient in
becoming skilled at
cramming
familiarizing oneself with
familiarizing yourself with
gaining an understanding of
gathering
getting across
getting clued up about
getting the point of
gleaning
grinding
having lessons in
hitting the books
knowing backwards
knowing inside out
mugging up
perusing
preparing
reading up on
working at
becoming able
becoming versed
brushing up on
burning midnight oil
checking
cracking the books
drinking in
getting down pat
getting the hang of
getting the knack of
improving mind
majoring in
minoring in
poring over
soaking up
specializing in
taking course
taking in
training in
wading through
watching
larnin
studying
lucubrating
revising
burning the midnight oil
reading up
swotting up
boning up
memorizing
US
memorising
UK
going over
plugging away
applying oneself
working
burying oneself in
hammering away at
genning up
studying intensely
studying intensively
apprehending
discerning
registering
appreciating
cognizing
savvying
deciphering
recognizing
US
intuiting
sensing
seizing
realizing
US
knowing
compassing
seeing
recognising
UK
realising
UK
following
catching
twigging
processing
conceiving
decoding
digging
integrating
making out
catching on to
tumbling to
cottoning to
cottoning on to
latching onto
getting into
absorbing mentally
making of
ascertaining
taking something on board
taking on board
chalking up
having knowledge of
becoming versed in
becoming familiar with
soaking in
taking up
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to speak ambiguously, unclearly or doubtfully, especially with intent to deceive
equivocating
tergiversating
prevaricating
waffling
pussyfooting
fudging
dodging
hedging
flanneling
flannelling
fencing
weaseling
US
weaselling
UK
sidestepping
evading
quibbling
stalling
temporising
UK
temporizing
US
parrying
stonewalling
shuffling
cavilling
UK
caviling
US
paltering
jiving
adumbrating
fibbing
lying
pettifogging
subtilizing
shilly-shallying
dodging the issue
parrying questions
beating about the bush
evading the issue
humming and hawing
fudging the issue
hemming and hawing
sitting on the fence
ducking the question
shuffling about
copping out
ducking the issue
pussyfooting around
beating around the bush
avoiding the issue
mincing words
begging the question
blowing hot and cold
stalling for time
covering up
running around
straddling the fence
copping a plea
passing the buck
clouding the issue
giving run around
telling white lie
mincing matters
Verb
▲
Present participle for to apply oneself to study
hitting the books
studying
applying oneself
cracking a book
Verb
▲
Present participle for to (excessively) boast about one's accomplishments, qualities, or possessions
gasconading
boasting
bragging
vaunting
crowing
swaggering
blustering
gloating
bulling
blowing
flaunting
vaporing
exulting
aggrandizing
flourishing
exaggerating
advertising
advertizing
bullying
faking
congratulating oneself
flattering oneself
blowing your own horn
blowing smoke
attracting attention
giving a good account of yourself
Verb
▲
Present participle for to acquire knowledge on an issue
reading up on
studying
swotting
getting up
boning up on
mugging up on
Noun
▲
A deceptive tactic, resembling a con, ripoff, or scam, involving false promises or exaggerations
snow job
con
ripoff
scam
flimflam
hosing
the business
bill of goods
smoke and mirrors
soft soap
song and dance
line
bull
jive
story
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