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hoodwink
What does hoodwink mean?
hoodwink (verb): to deceive; to beguile, dupe, mislead.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use hoodwink in a sentence?
- How could I hoodwink him? (Tatoeba sentence #5336105 by Amittai, CC BY 2.0 FR)
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What does “hoodwink” mean?
to persuade someone not to do something; to discourage
Not quite: that's what deter means.
to burn the surface of something so as to discolor it
Not quite: that's what scorch means.
to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state
Not quite: that's what evaporate means.
to deceive; to beguile, dupe, mislead
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