betrick

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verb

To play a trick on; to trick

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Meanings

verbbetrick (third-person singular simple present betricks, present participle betricking, simple past and past participle betricked)

present singular third person betricks · participle present betricking · participle past betricked · past betricked

  1. transitiveTo play a trick on; to trick

    Only, he sought to betrick me and do it wrong. So I unfed him for another hot day.

    1926, Blanche Colton Williams, Best American stories, 1919-1924, page 247
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    Here the desert of death simulates a field of cooling snow, green hills lie black in the dazzling light of day, limpid waters run green over arsenic stone, and sunset betricks the fantastic rock with column and capital and dome.

    1910, Frank Hamilton Spearman, Whispering Smith, page 52

    Thoughts cannot reach this world, yet clandestinely 'Tis in the hearts of mankind; even, from their scripts. I got to liberate my being from this existential mode, For it betricks my life into thinking that I am really Free within these chains of death, but still I am just a New fool plainly, tricked in, even, this vicious circle.

    2011, Dr. Charles N. Ford, Hidden Fields, book 3, page 103

Origin

From be- (“at, on, upon”) + trick.

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APA

betrick. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/betrick

MLA

“betrick.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/betrick. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “betrick,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/betrick.

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