verb
Etymology
Origin of befool
First recorded in 1350–1400, befool is from the Middle English word befolen. See be-, fool 1
Example Sentences
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The action concerns the usual city fellers who atempt to befool the honest but apparently boobish guardian of the two girl orphans and their fortune.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ask questions without seeming to ask them, and ask them in such a way as to befool those you ask.
From The Coming of the King by James Hocking
Ha! ha! how you all befool one another.
From 'Midst the Wild Carpathians by M?r J?kai
Or was he a very clever scoundrel, with irony lurking in his soft voice, and a chuckle that he could so befool me?
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 by Harry Bates
"I thought he was jesting, and said,— "'Ah, Sir Host, you would befool me and my wishes with a false image of Luther!'
From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Elizabeth Rundle Charles
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