dupe¹ Definition
dupe (do̵̅o̅p, dyo̵̅o̅p)
noun
a person easily tricked or fooled
Etymology: Fr < OFr duppe, cant alteration of L upupa, hoopoe, stupid bird
transitive verb duped, dup′·ing
to deceive by trickery; fool or cheat
Etymology: Fr duper < the n.
dupe¹ Related Forms
dup′·able adjective
dup′er noun
dupe² Definition
dupe (do̵̅o̅p, dyo̵̅o̅p)
noun, transitive verb duped, dup′·ing
dupe Synonyms
dupe Usage Examples
Object
- worker: It is an organization of the bourgeoisie, which exists to systematically dupe the workers with the aid of the British Noses and Scheidemanns.
- customer: Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk / Marsh to pay back duped customers.
- user: Another mail is doing the rounds, with spammers duping users into creating new email accounts for them.
- people: Making a fortune duping people never bothered Randall Gordon.
- public: We have tested a lot of them and effectively what they are doing is duping the public.
- world: Former defense minister and Labor backbencher Peter Kilfoyle said: " America is duping the world into believing it supports these inspections.
Converse of object
- make: They also have large format scanners that can make dupes of my drawings.
- become: While his intentions were pure, he only became a dupe to his sanguine temper and his own theories.
Subject
- man: In his intense desire to believe, Agent Mulder was duped by this man.
- Satan: People living in sin are duped by Satan and because they are led astray they become enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures.
- scam: The UK consumer complaints website, Grumbletext.co.uk is inundated with complaints from people duped by the scams.
Adjective modifier
innocent: The reality was that I was only an innocent dupe.
Modifying Another Word
- easily: Her characters are easily duped by an extremely offensive man.
- not: Johnson told the court: " I'm not duping anybody.
- successfully: If people are successfully duped by a magician, then it is magic.
- so: How could the electorate have been so duped, and so blind for all that time?
Preposition: by
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