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Verb chisel has 3 senses
- cheat, chisel - engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who's chiseling on the side?"
--1 is one way to deceive, lead on, delude, cozen
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- cheat, rip off, chisel - deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money"
--2 is one way to victimize, victimise
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody of something
- chisel - carve with a chisel; "chisel the marble"
--3 is one way to carve, cut up
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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