All 5 Uses of
deceive
in
Medea, by Euripides (translated by: G. Theodoridis)
- They dared to deceive me.†
deceive = lie or mislead
- She raised her voice the poor wretch, with curses against the deceiver of her bed, cursing him that he should find his new marriage to be a black one.†
*deceiver = someone who lies or misleads
- My husband deceives me and treats me like a prize he has just ripped out of some barbarous country; no mother, no brother, no relative at all to whom I can turn for support at this dreadful hour of mine.†
deceives = lies or misleads
- A woman is, in all things, timid, shy, weak and can't even look at weapons but when she's deceived by her husband, when her marriage is mocked, there is nothing more bloodthirsty than her.†
deceived = lied or misled
- How often we were deceived by this coward!†
Definition:
to lie to or mislead someone -- occasionally to lie to oneself by denying reality