fool

From: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English | Date: 2008 | Copyright information

fool • verb   1. they certainly fooled the teacher synonyms : deceive, trick, play a trick on, hoax, make a fool of, dupe, take in, mislead, hoodwink, bluff, delude, beguile, bamboozle, cozen, gull; inf. con, kid, put one over on.
  2. we thought he was dead but he was only fooling synonyms : pretend, make believe, feign, put on an act, act, fake, counterfeit; inf. kid. phrase: fool around   1. the boys are always fooling around synonyms : play the fool, jest, joke, play tricks, clown, caper, cavort.
  2. fool around with the controls synonyms : fiddle, ...

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