The Collaborative International Dictionary
Befool \Be*fool"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Befooled; p. pr. & vb. n. Befooling.] [OE. befolen; pref. be- + fol fool.]
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To fool; to delude or lead into error; to infatuate; to deceive.
This story . . . contrived to befool credulous men.
--Fuller. To cause to behave like a fool; to make foolish. ``Some befooling drug.''
--G. Eliot.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: befool)
Usage examples of "befooled".
But she was the worst befooled mortal in the world when she turned elsewhere for support.
Those who thought to use Oma and Uryan for their purposes were mistaken, for the Lady Oma, of trading stock and shrewd, was no easily befooled female of the inner courts.
Phoebus," quoth he, "for all thy worthiness, For all thy beauty, and all thy gentleness, For all thy song, and all thy minstrelsy, *For all thy waiting, bleared is thine eye* *despite all thy watching, With one of little reputation, thou art befooled* Not worth to thee, as in comparison, The mountance* of a gnat, so may I thrive.
She has left you because the Prince, my brother, whom she has befooled with her tricks and beauty, as she has befooled others, or tried to"--and she glanced at me--"is a bigger man than you are.
Imgry might hate me for my deception, but he was greater than some men, able to swallow that which might have been humiliation at being befooled, because it best suited.