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- to deceive someone, especially by playing a trick on them: A fake website was set up and a number of people were hoaxed.
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The meaning of HOAX is to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous. How to use hoax in a sentence.
HOAX meaning: 1. a plan to deceive someone, such as telling the police there is a bomb somewhere when there is…. Learn more.
to deceive, especially by playing a trick on someone. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. (Definition of hoax from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
HOAXED meaning: 1. past simple and past participle of hoax 2. to deceive, especially by playing a trick on someone. Learn more.
Hoax definition: something intended to deceive or defraud. See examples of HOAX used in a sentence.
hoaxes. A trick or fraud, esp. one meant as a practical joke. Webster's New World. An act intended to deceive or trick. American Heritage. Similar definitions. Something that has been established or accepted by fraudulent means. American Heritage. Synonyms: dupery. put-on. humbug. fraudulence. rumor. mare-s-nest. imposture. canard. deceit.
5 days ago · A hoax is a trick in which someone tells people a lie, for example that there is a bomb somewhere when there is not, or that a picture is genuine when it is not. He denied making the hoax call but was convicted after a short trial. Synonyms: trick, joke, fraud, con [informal] More Synonyms of hoax. More Synonyms of hoax.
