Deceive vs Swike - What's the difference?
deceive | swike |
To trick or mislead.
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(transitive, dialectal, or, obsolete) To deceive, cheat; betray
(transitive, dialectal, or, obsolete) To stop, blin, cease
(dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) Deceit; treachery
(dialectal, or, obsolete) A deceiver; betrayer, traitor
* 1848 , Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings :
(dialectal, or, obsolete) A hiding place; den; cave
As verbs the difference between deceive and swike
is that deceive is to trick or mislead while swike is to deceive, cheat; betray.As an adjective swike is
deceitful; treacherous.As a noun swike is
deceit; treachery.deceive
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* (obsolete)Verb
(deceiv)citation, page= , passage=Hungry for fame and the approval of rare-animal collector Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), Darwin deceives the Captain and his crew into believing they can get enough booty to win the pirate competition by entering Polly in a science fair. So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest reads simply “I hate pirates.” }}
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(en noun)- The Saxon Chronicle contradicts itself as to Algar's outlawry, stating in one passage that he was outlawed without any kind of guilt, and in another that he was outlawed as swike , or traitor, and that he made a confession of it before all the men there gathered.
