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snow

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of snow

1 to cause to believe what is untrue

  • easily snowed by her glib talk
Synonyms of snow

bamboozle, beguile, bluff, buffalo, burn, catch, con, cozen, deceive, delude, dupe, fake out, fool, gaff, gammon, gull, have, have on [chiefly British], hoax, hoodwink, hornswoggle, humbug, juggle, misguide, misinform, mislead, snooker, spoof, string along, suck in, sucker, take in, trick
Words Related to snow

kid, put on, tease

bleed, cheat, chisel, defraud, diddle, euchre, flam, fleece, gyp, hustle, mulct, rook, shortchange, skin, squeeze, stick, sting, swindle
Phrases Synonymous with snow

do a number on, lead one down the garden path (also lead one up the garden path), pull one's leg, pull the wool over one's eyes
Near Antonyms of snow

debunk, expose, reveal, show up, uncloak, uncover, unmask

disclose, divulge, tell, unveil

disabuse, disenchant, disillusion
Antonyms of snow

undeceive

2 to make white or whiter by removing color

  • the years had snowed his hair to a silvery white, making it difficult at first to recognize her old high school crush
Synonyms of snow

blanch, bleach, blench, decolorize, dull, fade, pale, wash out, whiten
Words Related to snow

brighten, lighten

dim, mat (also matte)

etiolate

whitewash

frost, silver
Near Antonyms of snow

blacken

blotch, checker, dapple, daub, discolor, fleck, marble, mottle, pattern, polychrome, shade, speck, speckle, splotch, spot, streak, striate, stripe, tarnish, variegate

color, dye, paint, pigment, stain, tincture, tinge, tint

burnish, polish, shine
Antonyms of snow

darken, deepen, embrown

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