deceive
verbcommon in dialogue
- //dɪˈsiːv//
To trick or mislead.
verb
- 1
To trick or mislead.
It feels painful to begin seeing clearly, that you’ve been deceived by the very people and institutions you trusted to guide you.
I know—for Death, who comes for me From regions of the blest afar, Where there is nothing to deceive, Hath left his iron gate ajar, […]
Hungry for fame and the approval of rare-animal collector Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), Darwin deceives the Captain and his crew into believing they can get enough booty to win the pirate competition by entering Polly in a science fair. So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest reads simply “I hate pirates.”
Etymology
From Middle English deceyven, from Anglo-Norman deceivre, from Latin dēcipiō (“to deceive; beguile; entrap”), from dē- (“from”) + capiō (“to seize”); see captive. Compare conceive, perceive, receive. Displaced native Old English beswīcan.
Forms
- past tense
- deceived
- past participle
- deceived
- present participle
- deceiving
- third person singular
- deceives