befool
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /bɪˈfuːl/
befool (befools, present participle befooling; past and past participle befooled)
- (transitive, archaic) To make a fool out of (someone); to fool, trick, or deceive (someone).
- 1605, Joseph Hall (bishop), Meditations and Vowes, Diuine and Morall, London: John Porter, 63,
- Nothing doth so befoole a man as extreme passion; this doth both make them fooles, which otherwise are not; and show them to be fooles that are so […]
- 1853, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, Chapter 40,
- Flattery is their nature—to coax, flatter and sweetly befool some one is every woman’s business.
- 1901, Andrew Lang, “The Fairy of the Dawn” in The Violet Fairy Book,
- But above all beware never to look the Fairy of the Dawn in the face, for she has eyes that will bewitch you, and glances that will befool you.
- 2009 July 13, "BJP workers stage protest after leader dies in hospital ↗," TImes of India (retrieved 29 May 2013):
- They alleged Dr Sidhu had no specialization in reducing weight and was only befooling innocent people.
- 1605, Joseph Hall (bishop), Meditations and Vowes, Diuine and Morall, London: John Porter, 63,
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