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deceiv'd

deceiv'd is the simple past and past participle of deceive.

Meaning of deceive

Verb

deceive (third-person singular simple present deceives, present participle deceiving, simple past and past participle deceived)

  1. (transitive) To trick or mislead.
    • It feels painful to begin seeing clearly, that you’ve been deceived by the very people and institutions you trusted to guide you.

Questions about deceiv'd

What is deceiv'd the simple past and past participle of?
Deceiv'd is the simple past and past participle of deceive.

Words near deceiv'd in the dictionary

  1. deceitfulness
  2. deceitfulnesses
  3. deceitless
  4. deceitlessness
  5. deceits
  6. deceiv'd
  7. deceivability
  8. deceivable
  9. deceivableness
  10. deceivably
  11. deceivance

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deceiv'd (page history and authors); deceive (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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