| graft | | |
| n. (body) | 1. graft, transplant | (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient. |
| ~ animal tissue | the tissue in the bodies of animals. |
| ~ autograft, autoplasty | tissue that is taken from one site and grafted to another site on the same person.; "skin from his thigh replaced the burned skin on his arms" |
| ~ allograft, homograft | tissue or organ transplanted from a donor of the same species but different genetic makeup; recipient's immune system must be suppressed to prevent rejection of the graft. |
| ~ heterograft, xenograft | tissue from an animal of one species used as a temporary graft (as in cases of severe burns) on an individual of another species. |
| ~ surgery | the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures.; "he is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School" |
| n. (act) | 2. bribery, graft | the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage. |
| ~ felony | a serious crime (such as murder or arson). |
| ~ barratry | the crime of a judge whose judgment is influenced by bribery. |
| ~ commercial bribery | bribery of a purchasing agent in order to induce the agent to enter into a transaction. |
| n. (act) | 3. graft, grafting | the act of grafting something onto something else. |
| ~ affixation, attachment | the act of attaching or affixing something. |
| v. (contact) | 4. engraft, graft, ingraft | cause to grow together parts from different plants.; "graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree" |
| ~ conjoin, join | make contact or come together.; "The two roads join here" |
| v. (contact) | 5. graft, transplant | place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient. |
| ~ infix, insert, introduce, enter | put or introduce into something.; "insert a picture into the text" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| 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" |
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