unhoodwink

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To remove a blindfold or blinder from.

   • The tail of the cart was turned towards the distant deer; the keeper entered it, and unhoodwinking his charge, it leaped through the door upon the ground, and there lay for a moment crouched flat on its belly;
   • His judgment answered him nay. Iddin was a traitor and was but playing with his victim. If his friends had really rescued him, why did they not unbind and unhoodwink him?
2. 2

   To disabuse of a deception.

   • And yet this Error and Superstition is so deeply rooted in the minds of the Papists, that there is scarcely any way left to disabuse and unhoodwink them, so fatally have their Priests and Monks enchanted them.
   • Yes, a lot of Negroes in my time were hoodwinked. As a student I spent a lot of time trying to unhoodwink myself.

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