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dupe¹ Definition

dupe (do̵̅o̅p, dyo̵̅o̅p)

noun

a person easily tricked or fooled

Etymology: Fr < OFr duppe, cant alteration of L upupa, hoopoe, stupid bird

transitive verb duped, dup·ing

to deceive by trickery; fool or cheat

Etymology: Fr duper < the n.

dupe¹ Related Forms
dup·able adjective duper noun
dupe² Definition

dupe (do̵̅o̅p, dyo̵̅o̅p)

noun, transitive verb duped, dup·ing

duplicate

dupe Synonyms

dupe

v.

fool, trick, victimize, hoodwink; see cheat, deceive. See syn. study at cheat.

dupe Usage Examples

Object

  • worker: It is an organization of the bourgeoisie, which exists to systematically dupe the workers with the aid of the British Noses and Scheidemanns.
  • customer: Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk / Marsh to pay back duped customers.
  • user: Another mail is doing the rounds, with spammers duping users into creating new email accounts for them.
  • people: Making a fortune duping people never bothered Randall Gordon.
  • public: We have tested a lot of them and effectively what they are doing is duping the public.
  • world: Former defense minister and Labor backbencher Peter Kilfoyle said: " America is duping the world into believing it supports these inspections.

Converse of object

  • make: They also have large format scanners that can make dupes of my drawings.
  • become: While his intentions were pure, he only became a dupe to his sanguine temper and his own theories.

Subject

  • man: In his intense desire to believe, Agent Mulder was duped by this man.
  • Satan: People living in sin are duped by Satan and because they are led astray they become enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures.
  • scam: The UK consumer complaints website, Grumbletext.co.uk is inundated with complaints from people duped by the scams.

Adjective modifier

  • innocent: The reality was that I was only an innocent dupe.

Modifying Another Word

  • easily: Her characters are easily duped by an extremely offensive man.
  • not: Johnson told the court: " I'm not duping anybody.
  • successfully: If people are successfully duped by a magician, then it is magic.
  • so: How could the electorate have been so duped, and so blind for all that time?

Preposition: by

  • man: In his intense desire to believe, Agent Mulder was duped by this man.
  • Satan: People living in sin are duped by Satan and because they are led astray they become enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures.

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