duped

¹ American  

[doopt, dyoopt] / dupt, djupt /

adjective

1. deceived, fooled, or tricked.

   There are no duped people in this sequence of events, only those who have chosen to remain willfully ignorant.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of dupe.

duped ² American  

[doopt, dyoopt] / dupt, djupt /

adjective

Informal.

1. (especially of recorded sound or images) duplicated.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of dupe.

Etymology

Origin of duped¹

dupe ¹ ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Origin of duped²

dupe ² ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

duped

Marcello Hernández’s Rubio initially delivered his appeal in Spanish, only to abandon the pitch and admit that he, too, had been duped.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

But even if there’s no hard camera footage of Kao giving Collins burlap sacks full of cash, there is undoubtedly a story that she got duped into delivering federal dollars to a scammer.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2026

The victims were duped into thinking that a model agency was interested in them, with emails telling them they had potential after they responded to a local photographic studio and social media advertising campaign.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Instead, she felt duped, filing a proposed class-action lawsuit that alleges the ring failed to reliably log her time asleep and rest quality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

Angry and feeling duped, the team piled into the jeep for the ride home.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge

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Related Words

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• tricked

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