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cozen vt.
vi. 欺騙,瞞 欺騙,瞞 cozen v 1: be false to; be dishonest with [ synonym: { deceive}, { lead on}, { delude}, { cozen}] 2: act with artful deceit 3: cheat or trick; " He cozened the money out of the old man" Cozen \ Coz" en\, v. i. To deceive; to cheat; to act deceitfully. [ 1913 Webster] Some cogging, cozening slave. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster]
Cozen \ Coz" en\ ( k? z"' n), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Cozened} (-' nd); p. pr. & vb. n. { Cozening} (-' n-? ng). ] [ From cousin, hence, literally, to deceive through pretext of relationship, F. cousiner.] To cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way. [ 1913 Webster] He had cozened the world by fine phrases. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] Children may be cozened into a knowledge of the letters. -- Locke. [ 1913 Webster] Goring loved no man so well but that he would cozen him, and expose him to public mirth for having been cozened. -- Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster] 58 Moby Thesaurus words for " cozen": beat, beguile, beguile of, betray, bilk, bunco, burn, cheat, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, cog, cog the dice, con, crib, defraud, delude, diddle, do, do in, do out of, double- cross, euchre, finagle, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, fudge, gouge, gull, gyp, have, hocus, hocus- pocus, humbug, mislead, mulct, overreach, pack the deal, pigeon, practice fraud upon, rook, scam, screw, sell gold bricks, sell out, shave, shortchange, stack the cards, stick, sting, swindle, take a dive, take in, thimblerig, throw a fight, victimize
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