con
/kɒn/ verb [T] (present participle conning, past tense and past participle conned) informalDefinition
› to trick someone, especially in order to take money from them: Thieves conned him out of his life savings. She felt she had been conned into buying the car.
(Definition of con verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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