All 5 Uses of
deceive
in
Medea by Euripides (translated by: G. Theodoridis)
- They dared to deceive me.†
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- 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.†
- 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.†
- 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.†
- How often we were deceived by this coward!†
Definition:
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(deceive) to lie to or mislead someone -- occasionally to lie to oneself by denying reality