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swindle
To practice fraud as a means of obtaining money or property.
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  1. To practice fraud as a means of obtaining money or property.
  2. To engage in swindling others
  3. To get money or property from (another) under false pretenses; cheat; defraud
trick
To deceive or swindle
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  1. To deceive or swindle
  2. To cheat or deceive or to practice trickery or deception.
dupe
To duplicate.
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  1. To duplicate.
  2. To deceive (an unwary person).
  3. To swindle, deceive, or trick.
hoodwink
To deceive or swindle by deception.
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  1. To deceive or swindle by deception.
  2. To mislead or confuse by trickery; dupe
  3. To deceive or trick.
puzzle
To baffle or confuse mentally by presenting or being a difficult problem or matter.
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  1. To baffle or confuse mentally by presenting or being a difficult problem or matter.
  2. To ponder over a problem in an effort to solve or understand it.
  3. To clarify or solve (something confusing) by reasoning or study:
confound
To fail to distinguish; mix up:
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  1. To fail to distinguish; mix up:
  2. To mix up or lump together indiscriminately; confuse
  3. To make (something bad) worse:
baffle
To confuse or perplex, especially so as to frustrate or prevent from taking action:
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  1. To confuse or perplex, especially so as to frustrate or prevent from taking action:
  2. To confuse so as to keep from understanding or solving; puzzle; confound
  3. To check the interference of (low-frequency sound waves) in a radio, phonograph, etc. by the use of a baffle
beguile
To deprive (someone) of or out of something by deceit; cheat
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  1. To deprive (someone) of or out of something by deceit; cheat
  2. To mislead by cheating or tricking; deceive
  3. To deprive (someone) of something by guile or deceit; cheat:
betray
To help the enemy of (one's country, cause, etc.); be a traitor to
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  1. To help the enemy of (one's country, cause, etc.); be a traitor to
  2. To give aid or information to an enemy of; commit treason against:
  3. To break faith with; fail to meet the hopes of
bluff
To try to mislead opponents in a card game by heavy betting on a poor hand or by little or no betting on a good one.
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  1. To try to mislead opponents in a card game by heavy betting on a poor hand or by little or no betting on a good one.
  2. To manage to get (one's way) by bluffing
  3. To engage in a false display of confidence or aggression in order to deceive or intimidate someone:
cozen
To mislead by means of a petty trick or fraud; deceive.
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  1. To mislead by means of a petty trick or fraud; deceive.
  2. (Archaic) To cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way.
  3. To persuade or induce to do something by cajoling or wheedling.
deceive
To cause to believe what is not true; mislead.
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  1. To cause to believe what is not true; mislead.
  2. To use deceit; lie
  3. To give a false impression:
delude
(Obsolete) To frustrate the hopes or plans of.
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  1. (Obsolete) To frustrate the hopes or plans of.
  2. To cause to hold a false belief; deceive thoroughly:
  3. To fool, as by false promises or wrong notions; mislead; deceive; trick
double-cross
To betray by acting in contradiction to a prior agreement.
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  1. To betray by acting in contradiction to a prior agreement.
  2. (Informal) To betray (a person) by doing the opposite of, or intentionally failing to do, what one has promised
  3. To betray or go back on
dupe
To deceive (an unwary person).
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  1. To deceive (an unwary person).
  2. To deceive by trickery; fool or cheat
  3. To swindle, deceive, or trick.
fool
(Informal) To speak or act facetiously or in jest; joke:
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  1. (Informal) To speak or act facetiously or in jest; joke:
  2. To toy, tinker, or mess:
  3. To deceive or trick; dupe:
hoodwink
To deceive or swindle by deception.
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  1. To deceive or swindle by deception.
  2. To mislead or confuse by trickery; dupe
  3. To deceive or trick.
humbug
To practice deception or trickery.
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  1. To practice deception or trickery.
  2. To dupe; deceive
  3. To deceive or trick.
mislead
To lead into error (of judgment); deceive or delude
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  1. To lead into error (of judgment); deceive or delude
  2. To lead in the wrong direction.
  3. To give a wrong impression or lead toward a wrong conclusion, especially by intentionally deceiving.
take-in
To absorb or comprehend.
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  1. To absorb or comprehend.
  2. To shorten (a garment) or make it smaller.
  3. To receive into your home for the purpose of processing for a fee.
trick
To cheat or deceive or to practice trickery or deception.
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  1. To cheat or deceive or to practice trickery or deception.
  2. To deceive or swindle
have
To cause to do something, as by persuasion or compulsion:
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  1. To cause to do something, as by persuasion or compulsion:
  2. To possess an understanding of; know
  3. To get, take, receive, or obtain
four-flush
To bluff, especially in poker
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  1. To bluff, especially in poker
  2. (Stud Poker) To bluff when one holds four cards of the same suit (four flush) instead of the five in a true flush
  3. (Informal) To pretend to be, have, or intend something so as to deceive; bluff
Find another word for bamboozle. In this page you can discover 31 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for bamboozle, like: swindle, trick, dupe, hoodwink, puzzle, confound, baffle, deceive, confuse, beguile and betray.

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  • At festivals like Warped Tour, The Bamboozle Road Show and Bonnaroo, hundreds of different artists play in one venue.

  • Some festivals, such as Warped Tour and The Bamboozle Road Show, travel around the country and are at a different venue each night, but other festivals, like Bonnaroo, are held in the same place each year.

  • The Rejects are headlining the Bamboozle Left tour along with the band Paramore.

  • Do n't bamboozle players with an excess of information.

  • bamboozle all opposition.

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