Usually means: Trick someone into looking foolish.
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  1. befool: Merriam-Webster
  2. befool: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. befool: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. befool: Collins English Dictionary
  5. befool: Vocabulary.com
  6. befool: Wordnik
  7. befool: Wiktionary
  8. befool: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. befool: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Befool, befool: Dictionary.com
  11. Befool: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. befool: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. befool: Rhymezone
  14. Befool: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. befool: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. befool: FreeDictionary.org
  17. befool: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. befool: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. befool: Legal dictionary

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  1. befool: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (befool)

▸ verb:  (transitive, archaic) To make a fool out of (someone); to fool, trick, or deceive (someone).

Similar:
dupe, fool, put one over, take in, put on, cod, slang, gull, put one across, befoozle, more...

Types:
hoax, deceive, defraud, swindle, cheat, more...

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Similar:
dupe, fool, put one over, take in, put on, cod, slang, gull, put one across, befoozle, more...

Types:
hoax, deceive, defraud, swindle, cheat, more...



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