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betrick

betrick verb: to play a trick on; to trick.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To play a trick on; to trick
    • 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
    • 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

Forms of betrick

third-person singular presentbetricks
present participlebetricking
past participlebetricked
pastbetricked

Origin of betrick

From be- (“at, on, upon”) + trick.

Questions about betrick

What does betrick mean?
Betrick means to play a trick on; to trick.
What part of speech is betrick?
Betrick is a verb.
What is the past tense of betrick?
The past tense of betrick is betricked.

Words near betrick in the dictionary

  1. betread
  2. betreading
  3. betreads
  4. betreed
  5. betrench
  6. betrick
  7. betrim
  8. betrimmed
  9. betrimming
  10. betrimmings
  11. betrims

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