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past tense of fake out
Synonyms & Antonyms of faked out
1
to cause to believe what is untrue
- my friends faked me out for a whole day, letting me think that they had forgotten my birthday
Synonyms for faked out
- bamboozled,
- beguiled,
- bluffed,
- buffaloed,
- burned
- (or burnt),
- caught,
- conned,
- cozened,
- deceived,
- deluded,
- duped,
- 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 elude (an opponent in a sports contest) by making a deceptive or agile movement
- used a quick between-the-legs dribble to fake out the flat-footed defender
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