gull
/ˈɡʌl/ verb C2- To deceive or cheat.
- To mislead.
- To trick and defraud.
He/she/it gulls · Past gulled · Past participle gulled · -ing form gulling
Verb forms
- Base form
- gull
- He/she/it
- gulls
- Past
- gulled
- Past participle
- gulled
- -ing form
- gulling
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Would you like to be a gull?
As Dantès (his eyes turned in the direction of the Château d’If) uttered this prayer, he saw off the farther point of the Island of Pomègue a small vessel with lateen sail skimming the sea like a gull in search of prey; and with his sailor’s eye he knew it to be a Genoese tartan.
Franz was sitting on the spot where he was on the previous evening when his mysterious host had invited him to supper; and he saw the little yacht, now like a sea-gull on the wave, continuing her flight towards Corsica.
One great grey bird, a gull or curlew, soared aloft in the blue heaven.
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