Synonyms for takes in
- beguile
- betray
- bilk
- bluff
- cheat
- con
- defraud
- delude
- do
- double-cross
- dupe
- flimflam
- four-flush
- gull
- hoodwink
- lie
- mislead
- pull wool over eyes
- swindle
- trick
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Antonyms for takes in
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WORD ORIGIN
1650s, "that which is taken in payment," from take (v.). Sense of "money taken in" by a single performance, etc., is from 1931. Movie-making sense is recorded from 1927. Criminal sense of "money acquired by theft" is from 1888. The verb sense of "to cheat, defraud" is from 1920. On the take "amenable to bribery" is from 1930.
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
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