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Definition of bamboozle:
Synonyms:
trick, hoodwink, lead by the nose, beguile, play false, puzzle, dupe, fool, deceive, swindle, double-cross, confound, cozen, betray, four-flush, pull the wool over someone's eyes, take for a ride, delude, put something over on, have, confuse, mislead, bluff, lead astray, snow, humbug, baffle, juggle, take in, honest.
Usage examples:
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And then the judge had added to the life of the meeting, helping to bamboozle and make miserable a wretch of a witness who had been caught in the act of seeing the boat smashed with a fragment of rock, and was now, in consequence, being impaled alive by his lordship's assistance.
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She was an impossible woman, of course, but rich and useful; he wanted to bamboozle her into buying some of his young friends' pictures.
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But no skill can succeed to bamboozle the cold, clear- sighted European statesmen.