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надувать — meaning in English

naduvat

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English meaning

  • bloat verb To swell up, especially with gas or fluid.
  • cheat verb To break rules in order to gain an unfair advantage.
  • con noun A dishonest scheme designed to trick someone, usually to take their money.
  • cozen verb To become cozy; (by extension) to become acquainted, comfortable, or familiar with.
  • do verb To perform or carry out an action or task.
  • dupe verb To trick or deceive someone, usually to gain something from them.
  • fool noun A person who acts or thinks without good sense or judgment.
  • hustle verb To push, shove, or move someone quickly and often roughly.
  • inflate verb To fill something with air or gas so that it expands.
  • kid noun A child or young person; informally, anyone's son or daughter regardless of their age.
  • swindle verb To cheat someone out of money or property through deception.
  • trick noun An action meant to deceive, fool, or outsmart someone.

Senses

надувать is used for these senses in English:

  • bloat To fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell.
  • blow up (transitive, dated) To inflate, as with pride, self-conceit, etc.; to puff up.
  • blow up (intransitive, of a storm) To begin; to gather; to form.
  • cheat (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
  • con (transitive, informal) To trick, lie or defraud, usually for personal gain.
  • cozen (archaic) To cheat; to defraud; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way. [from late 16th c.]
  • do (transitive) To cheat or swindle.
  • dupe To swindle, deceive, or trick.

bloat — full definition

  1. verb To swell up, especially with gas or fluid.
  2. verb To fill something with unnecessary bulk or excess.
  3. noun A swollen, uncomfortable feeling in the stomach, or unnecessary excess in something.

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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