"conning" in the verb sense
1. victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, hornswoggle, short-change, con
deprive of by deceit
"He swindled me out of my inheritance"
"She defrauded the customers who trusted her"
2. memorize, memorise, con, learn
commit to memory learn by heart
"Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?"
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