BLUFFED Synonyms: 103 Similar and Opposite Words

bluffed

verb

past tense of bluff

as in tricked

to cause to believe what is untrue I bluffed the interviewer into believing that I could really speak French and thus would be the perfect person to serve in the newspaper's Paris bureau

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as in pretended

to present a false appearance of the basketball player bluffed a shot, then passed instead

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Recent Examples of bluffed Any time the Patriots succeed with a new blitz or bluffed blitz in the first quarter, offenses expect to see it again later in the game. — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 17 Jan. 2026 On the second interception, Simmons said Delaware bluffed as if an all-out blitz was coming before falling back into coverage and making the pick. — Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2025

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Aguilar alleged that officers tricked her mother, who only speaks Spanish, into letting them in without giving her a chance to secure Kush.

— Amy Corral, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026
In 2022, internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare also said that the use of security keys had foiled a phishing attempt that tricked a few employees into entering their passwords into a fake login form.

— Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of tricked

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Tremble’s taunt after his second TD was already coming in for teasing by his teammates postgame, as running back Chuba Hubbard (120 rushing yards, one TD) pretended to be a reporter and asked Tremble about it.

— Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 18 Oct. 2026
Pressed — surely she’s pretended to be sick to get out of a party?

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of pretended

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Don’t be fooled by the big numbers that these guys throw around in their ballots.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2026
Despite all the criticism that has pummeled the club since it was found guilty of over 100 charges relating to financial breaches, you could be fooled into thinking nothing was wrong.

— Ben Church, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of fooled

Verb

Bloomsbury Publishing, which assumed control of the book after merging with Bourne’s previous publisher, returned the rights to the author.

— Zac Ntim, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026
Industry Has Already Faced This Problem Industrial automation has never assumed that instruments, controllers or operators will always behave correctly.

— Gregory Shahnovsky, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of assumed

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Some veterans say recruiters deceived them and Haitian authorities tortured them; their families call them scapegoats.

— Astrid Suárez, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
Some of the Colombians have long maintained that they were deceived about the mission and arrived at the home after Moïse had already been killed.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of deceived

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Its use during the exercise simulated an attack against an opposing naval force.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
Anthropic ran small open-weight models on real or simulated low-cost, off-brand Android TV boxes and other types of IoT hardware.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of simulated

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