Word Meanings - GULL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To deceive; to cheat; to mislead; to trick; to defraud. The rulgar, gulled into rebellion, armed. Dryden. I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service. Coleridge.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GULL)

• Cheat Overreach
• fleece
• silence
• trick
• gull
• cozen
• juggle
• defraud
• swindle
• dupe
• beguile
• deceive
• deprive
• hoodwink
• prevaricate
• dissemble
• shuffle
• inveigle
• Cozen
• Circumvent
• wheedle
• cheat
• overreach
• coax
• seduce
• Deceive
• Trick
• delude
• take in
• over reach
• mislead
• betray
• ensnare
• entrap
• circumvent

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of GULL)

• Enlighten
• guide
• remunerate
• compensate
• undeceive
• disabuse

Related words: (words related to GULL)

• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• COZENAGE
  The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud. Shak.
• SEDUCEMENT
  1. The act of seducing. 2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope.
• CIRCUMVENTOR
  One who circumvents; one who gains his purpose by cunning.
• ENTRAP
  To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men. A golden mesh, to entrap the hearts of
• SEDUCER
  One who, or that which, seduces; specifically, one who prevails over the chastity of a woman by enticements and persuasions. He whose firm faith no reason could remove, Will melt before that soft seducer, love. Dryden.
• DEFRAUD
  To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing
• JUGGLERESS
  1. A female juggler. T. Warton.
• TRICKISH
  Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. -- Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n.
• CHEATABLE
  Capable of being cheated.
• UNDECEIVE
  To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South.
• TRICKERY
  The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
• SWINDLER
  One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat. Syn. -- Sharper; rogue. -- Swindler, Sharper. These words agree in describing persons who take unfair advantages.
• REACH
  1. The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or something held or thrown; as, the fruit is beyond my reach; to be within reach of cannon shot. 2. The power of stretching out
• FLEECE
  1. To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool. 2. To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or frand; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions. Whilst pope and prince shared the wool betwixt them, the
• DELUDER
  One who deludes; a deceiver; an impostor.
• BETRAYAL
  The act or the result of betraying.
• REACHABLE
  Being within reach.
• GUIDEBOOK
  A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc.
• FLEECER
  One who fleeces or strips unjustly, especially by trickery or fraund. Prynne.
• OUTPREACH
  To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.
• FOREREACH
  To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.
• UNBEGUILE
  To set free from the influence of guile; to undeceive. "Then unbeguile thyself." Donne.
• TRICK
  The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players. On one nice trick depends the general fate. Pope. (more info) draw; akin to LG. trekken, MHG. trecken, trechen, Dan. trække, and 1. An artifice
• HIGH-REACHING
  Reaching high or upward; hence, ambitious; aspiring. Shak.
• ESCHEATOR
  An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. Burrill.
• GUNREACH
  The reach or distance to which a gun will shoot; gunshot.
• STRICKLE
  An instrument used for smoothing the surface of a core. (more info) 1. An instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure; a strike. 2. An instrument for whetting scythes; a rifle.