rook - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow

Synonyms

• Corvus frugilegus
• rook

More generic

• corvine bird

Related

• Corvus
• genus Corvus

Noun

(chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard

Synonyms

• castle
• rook

More generic

• chess piece
• chessman

Verb

deprive of by deceit

Synonyms

• bunco
• con
• defraud
• diddle
• goldbrick
• hornswoggle
• mulct
• nobble
• rook
• scam
• short-change
• swindle
• victimize

More generic

• cheat
• chisel
• rip off

More specific

• short
• short-change

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