betrick

English

Etymology

From be- (“at, on, upon”) +‎ trick.

Verb

betrick (third-person singular simple present betricks, present participle betricking, simple past and past participle betricked)

1. (transitive) To play a trick on; to trick
   • 1910, Frank Hamilton Spearman, Whispering Smith, page 52:

     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.

   • 1926, Blanche Colton Williams, Best American stories, 1919-1924, page 247:

     Only, he sought to betrick me and do it wrong. So I unfed him for another hot day.

   • 2011, Dr. Charles N. Ford, Hidden Fields, book 3, page 103:

     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.