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chiseling
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chisel
v.
cut (wood, stone, etc.) with a chisel; cheat
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chisel
Noun
1. an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge
(hypernym) edge tool
(hyponym) burin
Verb
1. engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who's chiseling on the side?"
(synonym) cheat
(hypernym) deceive, lead on, delude, cozen
(hyponym) job
(derivation) swindler, chiseller, chiseler, gouger, scammer, grifter, sharper, sharpie, sharpy
2. deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money"
(synonym) cheat, rip off
(hypernym) victimize, victimise
(hyponym) gazump
(entail) deceive, lead on, delude, cozen
(derivation) swindler, chiseller, chiseler, gouger, scammer, grifter, sharper, sharpie, sharpy
3. carve with a chisel; "chisel the marble"
(hypernym) carve, cut up
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Chiseling
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Chisel
of Chisel
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. About
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chiseling
Synonyms and related words:
artful, burr, calculating, collusive, covinous, crafty, cross-hatching, cunning, deceitful, demitint, engravement, engraving, etch, etching, FALSE, falsehearted, finagling, fraudulent, furtive, gem-engraving, glass-cutting, glyptic, graving, guileful, half tint, hatching, incision, indirect, inscript, inscription, insidious, line, lining, marking, scheming, score, scoring, scratch, scratching, sharp, shifty, slash, slashing, slippery, sneaky, stipple, stippling, surreptitious, tint, tooling, treacherous, trickish, tricky, two-faced, type-cutting, underhand, underhanded, wily,
artful, burr, calculating, collusive, covinous, crafty, cross-hatching, cunning, deceitful, demitint, engravement, engraving, etch, etching, FALSE, falsehearted, finagling, fraudulent, furtive, gem-engraving, glass-cutting, glyptic, graving, guileful, half tint, hatching, incision, indirect, inscript, inscription, insidious, line, lining, marking, scheming, score, scoring, scratch, scratching, sharp, shifty, slash, slashing, slippery, sneaky, stipple, stippling, surreptitious, tint, tooling, treacherous, trickish, tricky, two-faced, type-cutting, underhand, underhanded, wily,
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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CHISELING
CESELLANDO. SCALPELLANDO. INGANNANDO. IMBROGLIANDO. DEFRAUDANDO. FREGANDO
