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past tense of cozen
Synonyms & Antonyms of cozened
1
to cause to believe what is untrue
- cozened several elderly ladies into believing that he was intending marriage
Synonyms for cozened
- bamboozled,
- beguiled,
- bluffed,
- buffaloed,
- burned
- (or burnt),
- caught,
- conned,
- deceived,
- deluded,
- duped,
- faked out,
- fooled,
- gaffed,
- gammoned,
- gulled,
- had,
- had on
- [chiefly British],
- hoaxed,
- hoodwinked,
- hornswoggled,
- humbugged,
- juggled,
- misguided,
- misinformed,
- misled,
- snookered,
- snowed,
- spoofed,
- strung along,
- sucked in,
- suckered,
- took in,
- tricked
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2
to rob by the use of trickery or threats
- cozened scores of people by persuading them to hand over funds that he would "invest"
Synonyms for cozened
- beat,
- bilked,
- bled,
- cheated,
- chiseled
- (or chiselled),
- choused,
- conned,
- defrauded,
- did,
- diddled,
- did in,
- euchred,
- fiddled,
- fleeced,
- flimflammed,
- gaffed,
- hosed
- [slang],
- hustled,
- mulcted,
- nobbled
- [British slang],
- plucked,
- reamed,
- ripped off,
- rooked,
- screwed,
- shook down,
- shortchanged,
- shorted,
- skinned,
- skunked,
- squeezed,
- stiffed,
- stuck,
- stung,
- suckered,
- swindled,
- thimblerigged,
- victimized
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