faking out

verb

Definition of faking outnext
present participle of fake out
1
as in deceiving
to cause to believe what is untrue my friends faked me out for a whole day, letting me think that they had forgotten my birthday

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2
as in evading
to elude (an opponent in a sports contest) by making a deceptive or agile movement used a quick between-the-legs dribble to fake out the flat-footed defender

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for faking out
  1. deceiving
  2. evading
  3. fooling
Verb
  • Arizona's temperature can be deceiving and deadly.
    Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 2 Jan. 2025
  • As Soon As This Week That number is certainly deceiving, though.
    Rob Reischel, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of deceiving
Verb
  • Rich had fled to Switzerland in 1983 after he was indicted on more than 50 counts of fraud and evading more than $48 million in taxes.
    Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The pair really do go through the ringer, evading elephant stampedes, treacherous mountains, and ice cold snowy condidtions that look like Disney is setting up a cross over sequel with Frozen.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of evading
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  • Liverpool are regularly seeing apps that replicate the appearance of genuine tickets — fooling not just first-time visitors to Anfield.
    James Pearce, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The ultimate aim is, with the use of multiple layers of such transformations, fooling malware classifiers into thinking malicious code is, in fact, totally benign.
    Davey Winder, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of fooling
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