0 past simple and past participle of bluff --
1 to deceive someone by making them think either that you are going to do something when you really have no intention of doing it, or that you have knowledge that you do not really have, or that you are someone else: --
Ribault, believing his hungry men would be fed and decently treated, allowed himself to be bluffed into surrender.
He was bluffed out of the game.
My party will not be bluffed.
They have bluffed and bullied the councils into carrying it out.
The community at large are not going to be bluffed in the future as they have been in the past.
I do not think that anyone in this country was afraid of, or was bluffed by that talk of war.
I am sure that no councillor who is, frankly, worth his salt would let himself be bluffed by his officials.
We should not be bluffed by the fear that there will be a collapse in oil prices.
