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hoodwink
verb /ˈhʊdwɪŋk/
a) To cover the eyes with a hood; to blindfold.

Some there are, that through feare anticipate the hangmans hand; as he did, whose friends having obtained his pardon, and putting away the cloth wherewith he was hood-winkt, that he might heare it read, was found starke dead upon the scaffold, wounded only by the stroke of imagination.

b) To deceive or trick.

I feel like the salesman hoodwinked me into buying right away.


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