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present tense third-person singular of fake out
Synonyms & Antonyms of fakes 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 fakes out
- bamboozles,
- beguiles,
- bluffs,
- buffaloes,
- burns,
- catches,
- cons,
- cozens,
- deceives,
- deludes,
- dupes,
- fools,
- gaffs,
- gammons,
- gulls,
- has,
- has on
- [chiefly British],
- hoaxes,
- hoodwinks,
- hornswoggles,
- humbugs,
- juggles,
- misguides,
- misinforms,
- misleads,
- snookers,
- snows,
- spoofs,
- strings along,
- suckers,
- sucks in,
- takes in,
- tricks
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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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