Don't let him bamboozle you into falling for his scam.
Source: tatoeba (6038096)
Bamboozle
//bæmˈbuː.zl̩//
Synonyms for "bamboozle" (104 found)
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Closest matches (21)
Strong matches (31)
Related words (52)
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3 entriesderived
6 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entriesmanner of
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7 entriesTranslations
53 translations across 18 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- баламосвам verb (to con, defraud, trick)
Catalan
2 entries- engalipar verb (to con, defraud, trick)
- enredar verb (to con, defraud, trick)
Czech
4 entries- doběhnout verb (to con, defraud, trick)
- napálit verb (to con, defraud, trick)
- obalamutit verb (to con, defraud, trick)
- ošidit verb (to con, defraud, trick)
Dutch
2 entries- bedriegen verb (to con, defraud, trick)
- misleiden verb (to con, defraud, trick)
Finnish
1 entries- huijata verb (to con, defraud, trick)
French
3 entries- embrouiller verb (to con, defraud, trick)
- enfumer verb (to con, defraud, trick)
- moquer verb (to con, defraud, trick)
German
2 entries- beschwindeln verb (to con, defraud, trick)
- tricksen verb (to con, defraud, trick)
Hungarian
4 entries- becsap verb (to con, defraud, trick)
- bepaliz verb (to con, defraud, trick)
- felültet verb (to con, defraud, trick)
- félrevezet verb (to con, defraud, trick)
Ido
1 entries- dupigar verb (to con, defraud, trick)
Italian
1 entries- mistificare verb (to con, defraud, trick)
Macedonian
2 entries- и́зигра verb (to con, defraud, trick)
- и́змами verb (to con, defraud, trick)
Māori
2 entries- whakapōhēhē verb (to con, defraud, trick)
- whakapōkaikaha verb (to con, defraud, trick)
Polish
4 entries- napuszczać verb (to con, defraud, trick)
- napuścić verb (to con, defraud, trick)
- wrabiać verb (to con, defraud, trick)
- wrobić verb (to con, defraud, trick)
Portuguese
2 entries- lograr verb (to con, defraud, trick)
- ludibriar verb (to con, defraud, trick)
Romanian
3 entries- escroca verb (to con, defraud, trick)
- păcăli verb (to con, defraud, trick)
- înșela verb (to con, defraud, trick)
Russian
1 entries- обма́нывать verb (to con, defraud, trick)
Spanish
4 entries- embabucar verb (to con, defraud, trick)
- embaucar verb (to con, defraud, trick)
- engañar verb (to con, defraud, trick)
- mecer verb (to con, defraud, trick)
Swedish
4 entries- bedra verb (to con, defraud, trick)
- dupera verb (to con, defraud, trick)
- förleda verb (to con, defraud, trick)
- lura verb (to con, defraud, trick)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Don't try to bamboozle me.
Source: tatoeba (10928618)
“Look here, friend,” said I, “if you have anything important to tell us, out with it; but if you are only trying to bamboozle us, you are mistaken in your game; that’s all I have to say.”
Source: wiktionary
He's completely bamboozled by the changes in the computer system.
Source: wiktionary
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.