Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

betrick

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: be-t-rick
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To play a trick on; to trick

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"Here the desert of death simulates a field of cooling snow, green hills lie black in the dazzling light of day, limpid waters run green over arsenic stone, and sunset betricks the fantastic rock with column and capital and dome."
"Only, he sought to betrick me and do it wrong. So I unfed him for another hot day."
"Thoughts cannot reach this world, yet clandestinely 'Tis in the hearts of mankind; even, from their scripts. I got to liberate my being from this existential mode, For it betricks my life into thinking that I am really Free within these chains of death, but still I am just a New fool plainly, tricked in, even, this vicious circle."

Etymology

From be- (“at, on, upon”) + trick.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: be

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

betricks (present, singular) betricking (participle, present) betricked (participle, past) betricked (past)

Questions

What does betrick mean?: To play a trick on; to trick
Where does betrick come from?: From be- (“at, on, upon”) + trick.

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