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present participle of buffalo
Synonyms & Antonyms of buffaloing
1
to cause to believe what is untrue
- I'm not some newcomer that you can buffalo with that nonsense
Synonyms for buffaloing
- bamboozling,
- beguiling,
- bluffing,
- burning,
- catching,
- conning,
- cozening,
- deceiving,
- deluding,
- duping,
- faking out,
- fooling,
- gaffing,
- gammoning,
- gulling,
- having,
- having on
- [chiefly British],
- hoaxing,
- hoodwinking,
- hornswoggling,
- humbugging,
- juggling,
- misguiding,
- misinforming,
- misleading,
- snookering,
- snowing,
- spoofing,
- stringing along,
- suckering,
- sucking in,
- taking in,
- tricking
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2
to throw into a state of mental uncertainty
- in this debate I refuse to be buffaloed by a flurry of irrelevant issues
Synonyms for buffaloing
Words Related to buffaloing
- abashing,
- discomfiting,
- disconcerting,
- discountenancing,
- embarrassing,
- fazing,
- flustering,
- mortifying,
- nonplussing
- (also nonplusing),
- rattling
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