Befool

Definition: Befool

Befool

Verb

1. Make a fool or dupe of.

2. Fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "befool" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Note: Befool \Be*fool"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Befooled; present participle verb or noun Befooling.]. (references)

Synonyms: Befool

Deception

Verb: deceive, take in; defraud, cheat, jockey, do, cozen, diddle, nab, chouse, play one false, bilk, cully, jilt, bite, pluck, swindle, victimize; abuse; mystify; blind one's eyes; blindfold, hoodwink; throw dust into the eyes; dupe, gull, hoax, fool, befool, bamboozle, flimflam, hornswoggle; trick.

Insanity

Render mad, drive mad; Adjective: madden, dementate, addle the wits, addle the brain, derange the head, infatuate, befool; turn the brain, turn one's head; drive one nuts.

Crosswords: Befool

Albanian

mashtroj (bamboozle, beguile, besot, bilk, cheat, chicane, chisel, cozen, deceive, defalcate, defraud, delude, diddle, do, finagle, fleece, flimflam, fob, fool, fudge, gyp, hocus, hoodwink, hose, impose, jockey, juggle, lead on, mislead, mump, nobble, overreach, palter, queer, ready up, shortchange, swindle, take advantage of, take for a ride). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سخر (chip, debunk, deride, fleer, guy, jape, jeer, kid, lampoon, laugh at, make a game of, make fun of, mimic, mock, monkey, override, persiflage, pillory, poke fun, pooh pooh, quip, quiz, rally, rib, ridicule, satirize, scoff, send up, smile, snap, sneer, snigger, taunt, tee-hee, twit), ‏عامله كما يعامل المجانين. (various references)

Bulgarian 

измамвам (abuse, beguile, catch, chisel, chouse, clip, cross, dash, defraud, diddle, fix, flam, fob, fool, gaff, go back on, green, gull, hijack, kid, mislead, mock, nobble, overreach, play false, pluck, prey, pull a fast one, put across, put on, screw, sell, shaft, short-change, slip over, spoof, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, trim). (various references)

Czech

oklamat (cozen, deceive, delude, dupe, fool, hoodwink, sham). (various references)

French

traiter comme les fous, se moquer de. (various references)

Greek 

γελοιοποιώ (burlesque, ridicule, stultify), ξεγελάω. (various references)

Hungarian

bolonddá tesz (to cozen, to kid, to stultify). (various references)

Pig Latin

efoolbay.(various references)

Portuguese

enganar (abuse, avoid, bamboozle, beguile, belie, blind, bluff, cheat, chisel, chouse, cod, cozen, deceive, delude, diddle, double, double-cross, duck, dupe, err, fake, falsify, finesse, flimflam, fob, foist, fool, fox, gag, gammon, gouge, green, gull, gyp, ha, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, hoodwink, hum, humbug, impose, inveigle, jink, jockey, juggle, lace, lie, lurch, mislead, mock, mystify, out-jockey, overreach, palm, rip off, skin, sklent, spoof, take in, trepan, trick, victimize, wangle, wile). (various references)

Russian 

одурачивать (niggle, pull smb.'s leg). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nasamariti (deceive, dupe, fob). (various references)

Spanish

engañar (bamboozle, be deceptive, beguile, belie, betray, bilk, bite, bluff, buffalo, cheat, cheat on, circumvent, con, cozen, deceive, delude, do a room, double cross, dupe, fob, fool, hoax, hocus, hoodwink, kill, mislead, mystify, outsmart, pull a fast one, put across, put off, put over, put upon, spoof, stay, swindle, take in, trick, while away). (various references)

Swedish

lura (bamboozle, beat, beguile, cheat, chicane, chisel, chouse, clip, cod, con, cozen, deceive, decoy, delude, diddle, do, do down, dope, double cross, double-cross, dupe, entrap, euchre, flay, fool, Fox, gaff, gudgeon, gull, have, hoax, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, hoodwink, hook, humbug, impose, inveigle, jockey, kid, lure, out-jockey, overreach, rip off, rook, sell, short-change, swindle, trick). (various references)

Turkish

kandırmak (argue, bait, bamboozle, beguile, cheat, con, cozen, deceive, delude, diddle, dish, dissuade, dupe, entice, fast-talk, finagle, flimflam, fool, gammon, get round, gyp, hornswoggle, induce, intrigue, inveigle, jockey, jolly, kid, lead on, lie, persuade, play with, put across, put over, rope in, sell smb. a pup, serve a trick, spoof, stall off, stick, string, string along, stuff smb., take in, trick, wheedle), işletmek (actuate, bamboozle, cod, control, dupe, exploit, hoax, hornswoggle, keep, kid, manage, operate, ply, pull smb.'s leg, run, run the show, spoof, work), aptal yerine koymak. (various references)

Ukrainian

вважати дурнем, висміювати (caricature, deride, droll, jape, make fun of, mock, quip, satirize), обдурювати (bilk, cheat, chouse, cod, cog, counterfeit, deceive, doodle, dupe, flimflam, gull, hoax, hocus, hoodwink, humbug, jockey, juggle, prey, put upon, queer, sell short). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "befool": befooled, befooling, befools. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: obole.

-2 letters: bole, bolo, floe, fool, lobe, lobo, loof, oboe, obol, oleo.

-3 letters: bel, boo, elf, fob, foe, lob, loo, obe, ole.

-4 letters: be, bo, ef, el, lo, oe, of.

+1 letter: befools.

+2 letters: befooled.

+3 letters: befooling, bookshelf, lifeblood.

+4 letters: clubfooted, footballer, lifebloods.

+5 letters: bulletproof, comfortable, conformable, dobsonflies, footballers, footlambert, globeflower.