Hoax

Verb

 * 1)  To deceive (someone) by making them believe something which has been maliciously or mischievously fabricated.

Derived terms

 * hoaxer
 * hoaxster

Noun

 * 1) Anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick.

Verbs for Hoax
accept—; conceive—; contrive—; denounce —; espy—; frame—; impose — upon; manufacture—; perpetrate—; plan—; practise —; reveal—; spring—; vend—; —amuses; —deceives; —mystifies; —ridicules; —succeeds; —scares; —victimizes.

Thesaurus
bamboozle, befool, beguile, betray, bluff, cajole, cheat, cheat on, chicane, circumvent, clinquant, con, con game, conjure, counterfeit, cozen, deceive, deception, defraud, delude, diddle, double-cross, dummy, dupe, fake, fakement, flam, flimflam, fool, forestall, forgery, frame-up, fraud, game, gammon, get around, gull, gyp, hocus-pocus, hoodwink, hornswaggle, humbug, imitation, impostor, imposture, juggle, junk, let down, mock, outmaneuver, outreach, outsmart, outwit, overreach, paste, phony, pigeon, pinchbeck, play one false, put something over, put-on, put-up job, rip-off, scam, sell, sham, shoddy, simulacrum, snow, snow job, spoof, string along, swindle, take in, tinsel, trick, two-time, whited sepulcher

Etymology
Reportedly a form of hocus: (though there is no evidence of hocus: being used as a verb).

Verb

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 作弄, 戲弄,  戏弄
 * Czech: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:, berner
 * German: anführen, hereinlegen


 * Hebrew: מתח
 * Ido: dup-igo
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ペテンに掛ける
 * Portuguese: fraudar
 * Russian: разыгрывать, разыграть

Noun

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 騙局, 骗局, ,
 * Czech: podvod, mystifikace , žert
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: átverés


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ペテン,
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Polish: mistyfikacja, szalbierstwo
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: cioara vopsita
 * Russian: розыгрыш, трюк,  мистификация,
 * Spanish: