rook

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

1. (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
• Syn:
castle
• Derivationally related forms:
castle (for: castle)
• Topics:
chess, chess game
• Hypernyms:
chessman, chess piece
2. common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
• Syn:
Corvus frugilegus
• Hypernyms:
corvine bird
• Member Holonyms:
Corvus, genus Corvus

II - verb

deprive of by deceit
- He swindled me out of my inheritance
- She defrauded the customers who trusted her
- the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change
• Syn:
victimize, swindle, goldbrick, nobble, diddle,
bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip,
hornswoggle, short-change, con
• Derivationally related forms:
con (for: con), gyp (for: gyp), scammer (for: scam), scam (for: scam), defrauder (for: defraud), bunco (for: bunco), swindler (for: swindle), swindle (for: swindle), victimization (for: victimize)
• Hypernyms:
cheat, rip off, chisel
• Hyponyms:
short-change, short
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s somebody PP
- They rook him of all his money

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  Corvus frugilegus, castle