Usually means: Causes someone to believe falsehoods.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. deceives: Merriam-Webster
  2. deceives: Collins English Dictionary
  3. deceives: Vocabulary.com
  4. Deceives, deceives: Wordnik
  5. deceives: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. deceives: Wiktionary
  7. deceives: Dictionary.com
  8. deceives: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. deceives: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. deceives: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. deceives: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deceives: Idioms

(Note: See deceive as well.)

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verb:  (transitive) To trick or mislead.
▸ Also see deceive

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