to hoax
2
4.5
- verb
- /hoʊks/
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- She hoaxed everyone into thinking there was a ghost in the house for Halloween.
Examples
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The prankster hoaxed his friends by pretending to find a treasure map.
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You mean you hoaxed your way in here?
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I began to call upon these people and when I went to interview them in person I discovered I did not think that they were crazy or trying to hoax something.
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Not anymore... now he is about to hoax gullible people.
Blog text (8) -
In his life, Baudelaire was often a victim of the tendency to hoax others.
Academic text (1995) -
You think you're being hoaxed?
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He successfully hoaxed the audience with his clever magic tricks.
Synonyms
∞
1.3
To say something that is not true to trick someone
704
2.1
To trick someone into believing something that is not true
270
3.9
To make someone believe something that is not true to get an advantage
58
6.4
To trick someone into believing something false
50
7.3
To make up false information to trick people
48
6.3
Make someone believe something that is not true
19
7.2
To trick someone, often as a joke
16
2.9
To play a trick on someone to make people laugh
15
3.0
To make someone believe something that is not true as a joke
11
8.3
To trick someone by pretending you want to help them
6
2.8
To fool someone as a joke
5
3.2
To trick someone in a friendly way to make them laugh
4
3.1
Do small tricks to surprise or make someone laugh
4
3.9
To make all the people believe something that is not true
4
7.9
To trick someone into believing something false
3
6.0
Pretend to be a person or website online to trick people
1
6.4
To pretend to be or feel something to trick people
1
4.1
To tell someone something that is not true to make them laugh
1
8.7
To trick someone by pretending to be something they are not
To trick someone as a joke
To trick someone into believing something false
Make someone believe something false to trick them
Antonyms
Compounds
How Deceptive
- Formal
40
6.9
270
3.9
2
4.5
326
3.5
- Informal
16
2.9
- Informal
∞
3.5
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hoax as a verb comes from the same trick word hocus, so a helpful way to remember it is to think of a magician saying hocus-pocus to fool an audience; to hoax someone is to 'trick' them into believing something false.