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What does deceive mean?

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Verb
  1. To trick or mislead.
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A stand off in the Black Sea with Turkey is so much part and parcel of most openings that it can easily be dismissed as a ruse to deceive.
By bluffing and faking, you have to somehow provoke and deceive this system of defense.
The move was obviously a manoeuvre intended to appease and, perhaps, deceive disaffected members who clamoured for fresh leadership of the party.
Yet these same shapes become magical, their edges shimmer and shift, deceive and delight.
The implication of such involvement was an attempt to deceive, a successful attempt at the big lie.
The easiest people to deceive are those who think that they are immune to deception.

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