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    PLAY FALSE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an endplay

    Example:

    He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well

    Synonyms:

    bamboozle; hoodwink; lead by the nose; play false; pull the wool over someone's eyes; snow

    Classified under:

    Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

    Hypernyms (to "play false" is one way to...):

    betray; deceive; lead astray (cause someone to believe an untruth)

    Sentence frame:

    Somebody ----s somebody

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