Synonyms of faking out

faking out

verb

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• deceiving
• tricking
• fooling
• sucking in
• stringing along
• taking in
• having on
• kidding
• doing a number on
• teasing
• leading one up the garden path
• misleading
• pulling one's leg
• pulling the wool over one's eyes
• gammoning
• leading one down the garden path
• hornswoggling
• juggling
• buffaloing
• duping
• deluding
• humbugging
• bluffing
• stinging
• misguiding
• hoaxing
• misinforming
• snowing
• cheating
• putting on
• gulling
• conning
• suckering
• hoodwinking
• burning
• cozening
• spoofing
• having
• bamboozling
• beguiling
• catching
• gaffing
• snookering
• sticking
• defrauding
• bleeding
• euchring
• shortchanging
• mulcting
• swindling
• rooking
• chiselling
• fleecing
• flimflamming
• hustling
• chiseling
• squeezing
• skinning
• diddling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• showing up
• revealing
• exposing
• uncovering
• debunking
• disclosing
• unmasking
• telling
• undeceiving
• divulging
• unveiling
• uncloaking
• disillusioning
• disabusing
• disenchanting

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• evading
• dekeing
• dodging
• faking
• juking
• maneuvering (around)
• slipping
• sidestepping
• pump-faking
• stutter-stepping