| cozen | | |
| v. (social) | 1. cozen, deceive, delude, lead on | be false to; be dishonest with. |
| ~ betray, sell | deliver to an enemy by treachery.; "Judas sold Jesus"; "The spy betrayed his country" |
| ~ victimise, victimize | make a victim of.; "I was victimized by this con-man" |
| ~ chisel, cheat | engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud.; "Who's chiseling on the side?" |
| ~ shill | act as a shill.; "The shill bid for the expensive carpet during the auction in order to drive the price up" |
| ~ flim-flam, fob, fox, play a trick on, play tricks, pull a fast one on, trick, play a joke on | deceive somebody.; "We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week" |
| ~ befool, fool, gull | make a fool or dupe of. |
| ~ cheat on, cuckold, wander, betray, cheat | be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage.; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?" |
| ~ hoax, play a joke on, pull someone's leg | subject to a playful hoax or joke. |
| ~ ensnare, entrap, frame, set up | take or catch as if in a snare or trap.; "I was set up!"; "The innocent man was framed by the police" |
| ~ humbug | trick or deceive. |
| v. (social) | 2. cozen | act with artful deceit. |
| ~ chisel, cheat | engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud.; "Who's chiseling on the side?" |
| v. (possession) | 3. cozen | cheat or trick.; "He cozened the money out of the old man" |
| ~ gain, win, acquire | win something through one's efforts.; "I acquired a passing knowledge of Chinese"; "Gain an understanding of international finance" |
| ~ cheat, rip off, chisel | deprive somebody of something by deceit.; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money" |
| deceive | | |
| v. (communication) | 1. betray, deceive, lead astray | cause someone to believe an untruth.; "The insurance company deceived me when they told me they were covering my house" |
| ~ misinform, mislead | give false or misleading information to. |
| ~ personate, impersonate, pose | pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions.; "She posed as the Czar's daughter" |
| ~ bamboozle, lead by the nose, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, hoodwink, snow | conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end.; "He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well" |
| ~ cod, dupe, put one across, put one over, befool, gull, slang, take in, fool, put on | fool or hoax.; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!" |
| defraud | | |
| v. (social) | 1. bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize | deprive of by deceit.; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" |
| ~ short, short-change | cheat someone by not returning him enough money. |
| ~ cheat, rip off, chisel | deprive somebody of something by deceit.; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money" |
| swindle | | |
| n. (act) | 1. cheat, rig, swindle | the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme.; "that book is a fraud" |
| ~ cozenage, scam | a fraudulent business scheme. |
| ~ fraud | intentional deception resulting in injury to another person. |
| ~ bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, gyp, hustle, con, sting | a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property. |
| ~ pyramiding | a fraudulent business practice involving some form of pyramid scheme e.g., the chain of distribution is artificially expanded by an excessive number of distributors selling to other distributors at progressively higher wholesale prices until retail prices are unnecessarily inflated. |
| ~ holdout | the act of hiding playing cards in a gambling game so they are available for personal use later. |
| ~ swiz | British slang for a swindle. |
| ~ shell game, thimblerig | a swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under. |
| trick | | |
| n. (act) | 1. fast one, trick | a cunning or deceitful action or device.; "he played a trick on me"; "he pulled a fast one and got away with it" |
| ~ device, gimmick, twist | any clever maneuver.; "he would stoop to any device to win a point"; "it was a great sales gimmick"; "a cheap promotions gimmick for greedy businessmen" |
| ~ schtick, schtik, shtick, shtik | (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating.; "how did you ever fall for a shtik like that?" |
| n. (time) | 2. trick | a period of work or duty. |
| ~ duty period, work shift, shift | the time period during which you are at work. |
| n. (act) | 3. trick | an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent.; "that offer was a dirty trick" |
| ~ knavery, dishonesty | lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing. |
| n. (act) | 4. antic, caper, joke, prank, put-on, trick | a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement. |
| ~ diversion, recreation | an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates.; "scuba diving is provided as a diversion for tourists"; "for recreation he wrote poetry and solved crossword puzzles"; "drug abuse is often regarded as a form of recreation" |
| ~ dirty trick | an unkind or aggressive trick. |
| ~ practical joke | a prank or trick played on a person (especially one intended to make the victim appear foolish). |
| n. (act) | 5. conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, illusion, legerdemain, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy, trick | an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers. |
| ~ performance | the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment.; "we congratulated him on his performance at the rehearsal"; "an inspired performance of Mozart's C minor concerto" |
| ~ card trick | a trick performed with playing cards. |
| ~ prestidigitation, sleight of hand | manual dexterity in the execution of tricks. |
| n. (person) | 6. john, trick, whoremaster, whoremonger | a prostitute's customer. |
| ~ customer, client | someone who pays for goods or services. |
| n. (act) | 7. trick | (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner. |
| ~ turn, play | (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession.; "it is my turn"; "it is still my play" |
| ~ card game, cards | a game played with playing cards. |
| v. (social) | 8. flim-flam, fob, fox, play a joke on, play a trick on, play tricks, pull a fast one on, trick | deceive somebody.; "We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week" |
| ~ cozen, deceive, delude, lead on | be false to; be dishonest with. |
| ~ snooker | fool or dupe.; "He was snookered by the con-man's smooth talk" |
| rake-off | | |
| n. (possession) | 1. rake-off, vigorish | a percentage (of winnings or loot or profit) taken by an operator or gangster. |
| ~ cut | a share of the profits.; "everyone got a cut of the earnings" |
| waste | | |
| n. (substance) | 1. waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product | any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted.; "they collect the waste once a week"; "much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers" |
| ~ material, stuff | the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread" |
| ~ dross, impurity | worthless or dangerous material that should be removed.; "there were impurities in the water" |
| ~ exhaust, exhaust fumes, fumes | gases ejected from an engine as waste products. |
| ~ body waste, excrement, excreta, excretory product, excretion | waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body. |
| ~ filth, skank, crud | any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant. |
| ~ sewage, sewerage | waste matter carried away in sewers or drains. |
| ~ effluent, sewer water, wastewater | water mixed with waste matter. |
| ~ food waste, garbage, refuse, scraps | food that is discarded (as from a kitchen). |
| ~ pollutant | waste matter that contaminates the water or air or soil. |
| ~ rubbish, trash, scrap | worthless material that is to be disposed of. |
| ~ slop | (usually plural) waste water from a kitchen or bathroom or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand.; "she carried out the sink slops" |
| ~ toxic industrial waste, toxic waste | poisonous waste materials; can cause injury (especially by chemical means). |
| n. (act) | 2. dissipation, waste, wastefulness | useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly.; "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"; "mindless dissipation of natural resources" |
| ~ boondoggle | work of little or no value done merely to look busy. |
| ~ activity | any specific behavior.; "they avoided all recreational activity" |
| ~ waste of effort, waste of energy | a useless effort. |
| ~ waste of material | a useless consumption of material. |
| ~ waste of money | money spent for inadequate return.; "the senator said that the project was a waste of money" |
| ~ waste of time | the devotion of time to a useless activity.; "the waste of time could prove fatal" |
| ~ high life, highlife, lavishness, prodigality, extravagance | excessive spending. |
| ~ squandering | spending resources lavishly and wastefully.; "more wasteful than the squandering of time" |
| n. (attribute) | 3. thriftlessness, waste, wastefulness | the trait of wasting resources.; "a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"; "the wastefulness of missed opportunities" |
| ~ improvidence, shortsightedness | a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources. |
| n. (location) | 4. barren, waste, wasteland | an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation.; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert" |
| ~ heathland, heath | a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation. |
| ~ wild, wilderness | a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition.; "it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers" |
| n. (act) | 5. permissive waste, waste | (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect. |
| ~ human action, human activity, act, deed | something that people do or cause to happen. |
| ~ law, jurisprudence | the collection of rules imposed by authority.; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
| v. (possession) | 6. blow, squander, waste | spend thoughtlessly; throw away.; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree" |
| ~ expend, use | use up, consume fully.; "The legislature expended its time on school questions" |
| ~ blow | spend lavishly or wastefully on.; "He blew a lot of money on his new home theater" |
| ~ burn | spend (significant amounts of money).; "He has money to burn" |
| v. (consumption) | 7. waste | use inefficiently or inappropriately.; "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience" |
| ~ apply, employ, use, utilise, utilize | put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose.; "use your head!"; "we only use Spanish at home"; "I can't use this tool"; "Apply a magnetic field here"; "This thinking was applied to many projects"; "How do you utilize this tool?"; "I apply this rule to get good results"; "use the plastic bags to store the food"; "He doesn't know how to use a computer" |
| v. (possession) | 8. waste | get rid of.; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer" |
| ~ cast aside, cast away, chuck out, discard, throw away, toss away, toss out, cast out, dispose, put away, throw out, fling, toss | throw or cast away.; "Put away your worries" |
| v. (motion) | 9. run off, waste | run off as waste.; "The water wastes back into the ocean" |
| ~ course, flow, run, feed | move along, of liquids.; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi" |
| v. (contact) | 10. do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralise, neutralize, waste | get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing.; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized" |
| ~ kill | cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly.; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays" |
| v. (consumption) | 11. consume, squander, ware, waste | spend extravagantly.; "waste not, want not" |
| ~ fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, fool, dissipate, shoot | spend frivolously and unwisely.; "Fritter away one's inheritance" |
| ~ luxuriate, wanton | become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously. |
| ~ lavish, shower | expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns.; "He was showered with praise" |
| ~ overspend | spend at a high rate. |
| ~ expend, spend, drop | pay out.; "spend money" |
| ~ splurge, fling | indulge oneself.; "I splurged on a new TV" |
| v. (change) | 12. languish, pine away, waste | lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief.; "After her husband died, she just pined away" |
| ~ weaken | become weaker.; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days" |
| v. (change) | 13. emaciate, macerate, waste | cause to grow thin or weak.; "The treatment emaciated him" |
| ~ emaciate | grow weak and thin or waste away physically.; "She emaciated during the chemotherapy" |
| ~ debilitate, enfeeble, drain | make weak.; "Life in the camp drained him" |
| v. (change) | 14. desolate, devastate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge, waste | cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly.; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion" |
| ~ ruin, destroy | destroy completely; damage irreparably.; "You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!"; "The tears ruined her make-up" |
| ~ ruin | reduce to ruins.; "The country lay ruined after the war" |
| v. (body) | 15. rot, waste | become physically weaker.; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world" |
| ~ degenerate, deteriorate, devolve, drop | grow worse.; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match" |
| ~ gangrene, necrose, sphacelate, mortify | undergo necrosis.; "the tissue around the wound necrosed" |
| adj. | 16. godforsaken, waste, wild | located in a dismal or remote area; desolate.; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places" |
| ~ inhospitable | unfavorable to life or growth.; "the barren inhospitable desert"; "inhospitable mountain areas" |
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