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English noun: rook | |||
| 1. | rook (artifact) (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard | ||
| Synonyms | castle | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | chess piece, chessman | ||
| Domain category | chess, chess game | ||
| 2. | rook (animal) common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow | ||
| Synonyms | Corvus frugilegus | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | corvine bird | ||
| Member meronym | Corvus, genus Corvus | ||
English verb: rook | |||
| 1. | rook (social) deprive of by deceit | ||
| Samples | He swindled me out of my inheritance. She defrauded the customers who trusted her. The cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change. | ||
| Examples | They rook him of all his money | ||
| Synonyms | bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody. Somebody ----s somebody PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | cheat, chisel, rip off | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | short, short-change | ||
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