Synonyms for rook
rʊkrook

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1. castle, rooknoun

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

   Synonyms:
   castling, castle, palace

2. rook, Corvus frugilegusverb

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

   Synonyms:
   castle

3. victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, converb

   deprive of by deceit

   "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"

   Synonyms:
   cabbage, fiddle, hook, nobble, victimize, gip, shirk, goldbrick, swindle, con, memorise, snatch, diddle, lift, gyp, kidnap, abstract, toy, abduct, pilfer, filch, purloin, snarf, short-change, defraud, hornswoggle, play, victimise, sneak, bunco, pinch, swipe, short, memorize, learn, scam, mulct, shrink from

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1. • Chess
   • Chessman

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1. rooknoun

   Synonyms:
   castle (in chess)

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1. List of paraphrases for "rook":

   tower, tour, torre

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