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Definition
to lie to or mislead someone — occasionally to lie to oneself by denying reality
- Your master, Poole, is plainly seized with one of those maladies that both torture and deform the sufferer; hence, for aught I know, the alteration of his voice; hence the mask and the avoidance of his friends; hence his eagerness to find this drug, by means of which the poor soul retains some hope of ultimate recovery—God grant that he be not deceived!p. 58.7
- "Have I been twenty years in this man's house, to be deceived about his voice?p. 55.8
There are no more uses of "deceive" in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
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