Synonyms of tricking

tricking

verb

present participle of trick

as in fooling

to cause to believe what is untrue

you tricked me into thinking my ex wasn't coming to the party tonight

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fooling
• deceiving
• teasing
• duping
• conning
• kidding
• deluding
• hoodwinking
• suckering
• misleading
• misinforming
• gulling
• misguiding
• bamboozling
• hoaxing
• cheating
• spoofing
• catching
• bluffing
• juggling
• humbugging
• cozening
• snookering
• stinging
• having
• burning
• gaffing
• sucking in
• beguiling
• snowing
• stringing along
• taking in
• having on
• faking out
• gammoning
• hornswoggling
• buffaloing
• doing a number on
• sticking
• defrauding
• pulling one's leg
• leading one down the garden path
• swindling
• shortchanging
• pulling the wool over one's eyes
• fleecing
• hustling
• putting on
• diddling
• squeezing
• mulcting
• bleeding
• chiseling
• rooking
• skinning
• flimflamming
• euchring

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• exposing
• revealing
• uncovering
• telling
• disclosing
• debunking
• unmasking
• divulging
• showing up
• undeceiving
• unveiling
• disabusing
• uncloaking
• disillusioning
• disenchanting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of tricking

Football is all about engaño (trickery) — looking one way and passing the other, feinting to go left and swiftly moving right, manipulating the opposition and tricking them to open up those little spaces. — Xavi, New York Times, 19 July 2026

What’s far more eloquent is the episode with the witch Circe (a terrific Samantha Morton), whose habit of tricking and transforming men into animals is rendered in evocatively physical, body-horror-esque imagery. — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 15 July 2026

From there Nebula chained a handful of steps to escalate the dangling pointer into full control, ending by tricking the kernel into executing their code as root. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 8 July 2026

These fraudulent sites often mimic legitimate stores or rank high in search results, tricking desperate consumers into buying non-existent AC units. — Steve Weisman, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026

The schemes involve a predator pretending to be a teenager online and tricking victims into sending illicit photos of themselves. — Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 17 June 2026

While Matthew and Mu-won started Gojeuneok Bio together, Chang-ho has launched a cosmetics company that makes its money by tricking smaller companies into giving away the secrets behind their products. — Kayti Burt, Time, 29 May 2026

The church hosts sure love tricking us into eating raw broccoli by serving it up in this creamy pasta salad. — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 13 May 2026

Instead of acting independently, the forces influence one another to amplify the ion’s motion, thereby tricking the system into generating a much stronger, more complex interaction than either force could achieve alone. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 1 May 2026