deceive
To trick or mislead.
Example
“It feels painful to begin seeing clearly, that you’ve been deceived by the very people and institutions you trusted to guide you.”
Related words
- deceivability
- deceivable
- deceivance
- deceiver
- deceivous
- redeceive
- undeceive
- deceivingly
- flatter to deceive
- self-deceive
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "dēcipiō" (to deceive; beguile; entrap).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “deceive” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.