verb
Etymology
Origin of befool
First recorded in 1350–1400, befool is from the Middle English word befolen. See be-, fool 1
Example Sentences
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The action concerns the usual city fellers who atempt to befool the honest but apparently boobish guardian of the two girl orphans and their fortune.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nor shall you think to befool us, Miss!
From Ruth Fielding at Briarwood Hall or Solving the Campus Mystery by Emerson, Alice B.
“Don’t befool me any more,” he answered, almost roughly.
From Anna the Adventuress by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
Would you befool me, horrible creature, so that some mad deed shall hurl me down into the abyss?
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm
Now it was pitchy dark, both within and without, but love has sharpened senses and eyes which no night has ever yet been black enough to befool.
From A Romance in Transit by Lynde, Francis
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