hoax

aldatmaca, asılsız ihbar

İnsanları gerçek olmayan bir şeye inandırmak için bilerek uydurulmuş haber, uyarı veya başka bir hile.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: A false story, warning, or other trick deliberately created to make people believe something untrue.

• The warning was a hoax.
• Police investigated a hoax bomb threat.
• Thousands of readers believed the online hoax.

Eş anlamlılar: trick, deception, fraud

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: bomb hoax, elaborate hoax, hoax call

kandırmak, aldatmak

Birini bilerek uydurduğun bir hikâyeye veya iddiaya inandırarak aldatmak.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: To trick someone into believing a story or claim that you have deliberately invented.

• They hoaxed the local newspaper.
• Someone hoaxed us with a fake warning.
• The students hoaxed their teacher into believing aliens had landed.

Nasıl kullanılır: hoax someone into doing something (They hoaxed the reporter into publishing a false story.)

Eş anlamlılar: trick, deceive, fool, dupe

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: hoax someone, hoax the public, hoax someone into