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cozen someone into something/doing something collocation literaryold-fashioned to make someone do something by tricking or deceiving them: In college, he learned how to cozen his parents into thinking he remained a churchgoing Catholic. How had she let herself be cozened into this? See
cozenliteraryold-fashioned He would not cozen her into doing his work for him. By such logical, business-like persuasions, he had been cozened into surrendering the treasure. He believed she was trying to cozen him into matrimony. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Cheating & tricking anti-fraud bad faith bamboozle bilk blackmail deceive diddle feint flannel game-fixing grift grifter gull gyp have an eye to/for the main chanceidiom prankster pretext pretextual pull pull a fast oneidiom |