lead (someone) on

to deceive someone in order to get what you want from them.

She led him on for five months while she was going out with another guy.

Related vocabulary: toy with someone

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• freshen up
• freshen up something
• freshen yourself up
• fresh from
• fresh from something
• fresh from somewhere
• fresh out of
• fresh out of something
• friend in need.
• friend in need is a friend indeed.
• friends in high places
• frighten out of their wits
• frighten out of wits
• frighten someone out of their wits
• frighten someone out of wits
• frighten someone to death
• frighten the daylights out of
• frighten the daylights out of someone
• frighten the hell out of
• frighten the hell out of someone
• frighten the life out of
• frighten the life out of someone
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