dupe

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++dupe1 /djuːp $ duːp/ noun [countable]  TRICK/DECEIVEsomeone who is tricked, especially into becoming involved in something illegal 受骗者，上当者〔尤指受骗参与违法之事的人〕

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dupe• Investigators believe Dailey was a dupe for international drug smugglers.• They further felt that Scott and Trist had been the gullible dupes of Santa Anna.• And wretched they were, too, the poor hungry dupes.• Richard's other dupes seem culpably naïve, deceived by false appearances.• You poor dupe, she told herself.• She looked at them, and saw dupes.• Some portray the family as unwitting dupes of conspiracy theorists.• Most of us, frankly, are witless dupes to nature when the question is a baby.dupe2 verb [transitive]  TRICK/DECEIVEto trick or deceive someone 欺骗，哄骗be duped into doing something Consumers are being duped into buying faulty electronic goods. 消费者受骗购买有问题的电子产品。n Grammar Dupe is usually passive.→ See Verb table

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dupe• Women dieters, she realized, had been duped.• If I think the reason for moral thought and action is to realise intrinsically worthwhile states, I have been duped.• Were these held in reserve in case I wouldn't be duped?• Sure, they were duped and deluded.• At least with her young, keen eyes she would have seen that he was being duped by his own nephew.• And not only that, she had compounded her stupidity by allowing herself to be duped by Leo.• The spies duped government and military officials alike.• They had duped her and looted her of her sincerity.• The passion that wakened in me was anger, for I knew then that she had duped me.• The perpetrators of the hoax managed to dupe respectable journalists into printing their story.be duped into doing something• Many elderly people have been duped into buying worthless insurance.Origin dupe1 (1600-1700) French perhaps from Old French huppe type of bird considered stupid

dupe1 noundupe2 verb →n GRAMMAR1LDOCE OnlineChinese  

especially into becoming someone tricked, is who Corpus

dupe

I

dupe¹ /djuːp $ duːp/ noun [countable]someone who is tricked, especially into becoming involved in something illegal

II

dupe² verb [transitive usually passive]
to trick or deceive someone
    dupe somebody into doing something
    Consumers are being duped into buying faulty electronic goods.
     

THESAURUS

   ▪ deceive especially written to make someone who trusts you believe something that is not true: This was a deliberate attempt to deceive the public.
   ▪ trick to make someone believe something that is not true, in order to get something from them or make them do something: A man posing as an insurance agent had tricked her out of thousands of dollars.
   ▪ fool to make someone believe something that is not true by using a clever but simple trick: His hairpiece doesn’t fool anyone.
   ▪ mislead to make people believe something that is not true, by deliberately not giving them all the facts, or by saying something that is only partly true: The company was accused of misleading customers about the nutritional value of the product.
   ▪ dupe informal to trick or deceive someone, especially so that they become involved in someone else’s dishonest activity without realizing it: The spies duped government and military officials alike.
   ▪ con informal to trick someone, especially by telling them something that is not true: I’m pretty good at judging people; I didn’t think he was trying to con me.