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Chouse

To cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money.

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Beat 76% connected

of Beat

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Crush 76% connected

To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mas…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Shell 76% connected

A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Trounce 76% connected

To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Vanquish 76% connected

To conquer, overcome, or subdue in battle, as an enemy.

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Chicanery 74% connected

Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Chicanery 74% connected

Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Trickery 74% connected

The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Trickery 74% connected

The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 5

Cheat 92% connected

An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Chicane 92% connected

The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; tr…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Jockey 92% connected

A professional rider of horses in races.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Screw 92% connected

A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to l…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Shaft 92% connected

The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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