Synonyms for fleece

Most common

hook · plume · gazump · flense

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Verb

Noun

Definitions

1. v. 1

   To con or trick (someone) out of money.

2. n. 1

   Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal.

Related words

Word family

fleecy fleeceable

Is a kind of

cut-off

Forms

Plural

fleeces → wools, sheep-skins…

Past participle

fleeced
e.g. fleeced → soaked, rob'd, stripped, hooked…

Example sentences

• hook Please hang your coat on the hook behind the door.
• plume There was a plume of smoke coming from the shack.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters

rob¹

4 letters

skin¹, hook¹, clip¹, sack¹, wool¹, soak¹, loot¹, flay¹

5 letters

strip¹, steal¹, rifle², spoil¹, shave¹, shear¹, plume¹, pluck¹

6 letters

extort², gazump, flense

7 letters

plunder², pillage², swindle², despoil

9 letters

surcharge²

10 letters

overcharge³, impoverish³

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (rifle² = 2 syllables).

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