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BEFOOLING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does befooling mean?
• BEFOOLING (noun)
The noun BEFOOLING has 1 sense:
1. derision of someone or something as foolish or absurd or inconsistent
Familiarity information: BEFOOLING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Derision of someone or something as foolish or absurd or inconsistent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
befooling; stultification
Hypernyms ("befooling" is a kind of...):
derision (contemptuous laughter)
Context examples
It was as though my memories of all Jonathan's horrid experience were befooling me; for the snow flakes and the mist began to wheel and circle round, till I could get as though a shadowy glimpse of those women that would have kissed him.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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