deceive
/dɪˈsiv/ verb (present participle deceiving, past tense and past participle deceived)Definition
› to make someone believe something that is not true: The company deceived customers by selling old computers as new ones.
(Definition of deceive verb from the Webster's Essential Mini Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
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