chisel
an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge (Freq. 4)
• Hypernyms:
edge tool
• Hyponyms:
burin, cold chisel, set chisel, drove, drove chisel,
firmer chisel, ripping chisel, wood chisel
1. deprive somebody of something by deceit
- The con-man beat me out of $50
- This salesman ripped us off!
- we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme
- They chiseled me out of my money
• Syn:
cheat, rip off
• Derivationally related forms:
chiseler, chiseller, rip-off (for: rip off), cheat (for: cheat), cheater (for: cheat), cheating (for: cheat)
• Hypernyms:
victimize, victimise
• Hyponyms:
gazump, cozen, overcharge, soak, surcharge,
fleece, plume, pluck, rob, hook, victimize,
swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco,
defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle,
short-change, con, bilk, beat, bunk, whipsaw,
welsh, welch, juggle, beguile, hoodwink
• Entailment:
deceive, lead on, delude, cozen
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s somebody of something
2. engage in deceitful behavior;
practice trickery or fraud
- Who's chiseling on the side?
• Syn:
cheat
• Derivationally related forms:
chiseler, chiseller, cheat (for: cheat), cheater (for: cheat), cheating (for: cheat)
• Hypernyms:
deceive, lead on, delude, cozen
• Hyponyms:
job, shark, rig, set up, cozen,
crib, fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook,
wangle, misrepresent
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
3. carve with a chisel
- chisel the marble
• Hypernyms:
carve, chip at
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
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