memperdayakanBahasa Indonesia

fool, befool, gull, arse around, bamboozle

Rare #30,739 of the corpus · 1 per million words · 4,187 occurrences

From daya (meN-per-…-kan) · very common, #581

Verb

Conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end

English: bamboozle, snow, hoodwink, pull the wool over someone's eyes, lead by the nose, play false

Bahasa: menipu, memperdaya

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