verb
- Engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud.
- usage: "Who's chiseling on the side"
- Deprive somebody of something by deceit.
- usage: "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"
- Carve with a chisel.
- usage: "chisel the marble"
- synonyms: chisel
adjective
- Having a clean and distinct outline as if precisely cut along the edges.
- usage: "a finely chiseled nose"; "well-defined features"
- synonyms: well-defined
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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