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podvést — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bilk noun The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.
  • cheat verb To break rules in order to gain an unfair advantage.
  • finagle verb To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect, complicated and/or intensive efforts.
  • guile noun Clever, often sly or dishonest, cunning used to deceive or manipulate.
  • hoax noun Something made up on purpose to trick or deceive people.
  • shaft noun A long, narrow, straight part of a tool, weapon, or machine — such as a handle, pole, or rotating rod that transmits power.

Senses

podvést is used for these senses in English:

  • bilk (transitive) To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).
  • cheat (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
  • finagle (ambitransitive) To cheat or swindle; to use crafty, deceitful methods. (often with "out of" preceding the object)
  • guile To deceive, beguile, bewile.
  • hoax (transitive) To deceive (someone) by making them believe something that has been maliciously or mischievously fabricated.
  • shaft (transitive, slang) To fuck over; to cause harm to, especially through deceit or treachery.

bilk — full definition

  1. noun The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.
  2. noun A deception, a hoax.
  3. noun A cheat or swindler.

cheat — full definition

  1. verb To break rules in order to gain an unfair advantage.
  2. verb To be sexually or romantically unfaithful to a partner.
  3. verb To deceive or trick someone, often to take something from them.
  4. noun A person who cheats, or an act of cheating.

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