0 past simple and past participle of dupe
1 to deceive someone, usually by making that person do something that they did not intend to do:
These are the classic "duped dads," as they have sometimes been dubbed by the media - exact opposites of the uninvolved yet biologically related deadbeat dads.
Those who were duped by the cover story defied the instruction.
If accused, he can claim to have been duped by a spy even more cunning than himself.
Some intriguing findings suggest that, ironically, it is sometimes the experimenter who is duped in an experiment em398 ploying deception.
We laugh because we know who has just exited or who is hiding in a closet, but a duped spouse does not.
At the same time, he is presented as a kind of hapless innocent on the domestic front, duped occasionally by his servants and not adept at housekeeping.
Lonsdale is duped into enlisting, but reconsiders and is illegally detained until his time for withdrawing has passed.
Auditors and analysts duped the market players that placed their trust in them.
