rook

1. 1.

   deprive of by deceit

   “He swindled me out of my inheritance”

   “She defrauded the customers who trusted her”

   Synonymsvictimizeswindlegoldbricknobblediddlebuncodefraudscammulcthornswoggleshort-changecon

   Broadercheat

   Narrowershort-change

Other forms of rook

plural

rooks·

past tense

rooked·

present participle

rooking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about rook

What does rook mean?

rook means "(chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rook?

rook has 1 syllable: rook. In IPA it is /ˈɹʊk/.

What is another word for rook?

Close synonyms include castle, Corvus frugilegus, victimize, swindle, goldbrick. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rook a common word?

rook is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.