Meaning

10 senses

  1. (transitive)To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity.

    austricksen, reinlegen

    обма́ныватьobmányvatʹ

  2. To sham, to dissemble.

  3. (transitive)To confuse or baffle (someone).

    This crossword puzzle has completely foxed me.

    verwirren

    обма́ныватьobmányvatʹ

  4. (intransitive)To act slyly or craftily.

    verschlagen handeln, schlau handeln

    хитри́тьxitrítʹ

  5. (dated, transitive)To cheat or rob.

  6. (intransitive)To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity. (See foxing.)

    The pages of the book show distinct foxing.

  7. (transitive)To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.

  8. (intransitive)To turn sour; said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.

  9. (transitive)To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.

  10. (transitive)To repair (boots) with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.

More definitions
  • become discolored with, or as if with, mildew spots
  • be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
  • deceive somebody

Examples

316 sentences

  1. A fox is a wild animal.

    Лисиця — дика тварина. — deniko

    ruЛиса - дикое животное. — Selena777

    deFüchse sind Wildtiere. — lilygilder

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  2. The dog ran after a fox.

    Пес погнався за лисицею. — aandrusiak

    ruСобака побежала за лисой. — Hellerick

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  3. This is a fox.

    Це лисиця. — deniko

    deDas ist ein Fuchs. — aldar

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  4. It looks like a fox.

    Схоже на лисицю. — deniko

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  5. That fox must have killed the hen.

    Ця лисиця, мабуть, задушила курку. — deniko

    ruТа лиса, должно быть, убила курицу. — odexed

    deDieser Fuchs da muss das Huhn getötet haben. — samueldora

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Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
to trick:
to act slyly:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
to trick:
to confuse:
to act slyly:

Origin

From Middle English fox, from Old English fox (“fox”), from Proto-West Germanic *fuhs, fro

From Middle English fox, from Old English fox (“fox”), from Proto-West Germanic *fuhs, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz (“fox”), from Proto-Indo-European *púḱsos (“the tailed one”), possibly from *puḱ- (“tail”).

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Forms

foxes, foxing, foxed, foxed
Base formfox · to fox
3rd person singularfoxes
Present participlefoxing
Past simplefoxed
Past participlefoxed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyfox
he, she, itfoxes

Past simpleLesson

all personsfoxed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave foxed
he, she, ithas foxed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill fox

Synonyms

14 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words
Derivedoutfoxfoxedfoxing

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
fowlfowlerfoxyfoyerfracking

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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