"bluff out" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1856, C[aroline] A. Hayden, chapter X, in Carrie Emerson; or, Life at Cliftonville, 2nd edition, Boston, Mass.: James French and Company, →OCLC, page 117:",
          "text": "He really thought, however, he had heard Col. Macy speak in high terms of young Mr. Ashley as a favored suitor; and Miss Adelaide always seemed pleased with his attentions; he wouldn't be bluffed out of that, any way.",
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          "text": "There are games of cards known as \"bluff\" and \"poker,\" played by the most rash and reckless gamblers, in which a player loses all his stake unless he can keep on increasing it as fast as his adversaries; and many a luckless wight has been \"bluffed\" out of his savings on the Stock Exchange in the same way, although his bet was really made on a winning hand.",
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          "ref": "1922 November 25, A[rthur] M[urray] Chisholm, “A Thousand a Plate”, in Western Story Magazine, volume XXX, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Street & Smith Corporation, →OCLC, chapter II, page 91, column 2:",
          "text": "The older man eyed him for a moment balefully. \"I'm goin' to set 'em again,\" he replied, \"and don't you touch 'em. I'm goin' to trap where I durn please. There's two of you, but you don't bluff me out, not any.\"",
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          "ref": "1998 August, Mason Malmuth, “A Little More Sophistication”, in Winning Concepts in Draw and Lowball, 2nd edition, Las Vegas, Nev.: Two Plus Two Publishing, →ISBN, part 8 (Psychology), page 157:",
          "text": "The more sophisticated player has recently won a pot by drawing one card to a pair of face cards and then bluffing out his opposition.",
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          "ref": "2016, Sumit Sarkar, “Business Poker: Playing Games with Limited Information”, in Out-think!: How to Use Game Theory to Outsmart Your Competition, New Delhi: SAGE Response; Thousand Oaks, Calif: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 146:",
          "text": "Consistent predatory pricing makes the potential entrants believe that the predator is a low-cost firm. At least, they revise their beliefs and presume that the probability of the predator being a low-cost firm is very high. In this case, if the predator is not a low-cost firm, it successfully bluffs out the potential entrants through false signalling.",
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        "To deceive (someone) in order to convince them to give up."
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        "(transitive) To deceive (someone) in order to convince them to give up."
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          "text": "There are games of cards known as \"bluff\" and \"poker,\" played by the most rash and reckless gamblers, in which a player loses all his stake unless he can keep on increasing it as fast as his adversaries; and many a luckless wight has been \"bluffed\" out of his savings on the Stock Exchange in the same way, although his bet was really made on a winning hand.",
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          "text": "The older man eyed him for a moment balefully. \"I'm goin' to set 'em again,\" he replied, \"and don't you touch 'em. I'm goin' to trap where I durn please. There's two of you, but you don't bluff me out, not any.\"",
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          "text": "The more sophisticated player has recently won a pot by drawing one card to a pair of face cards and then bluffing out his opposition.",
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          "text": "Consistent predatory pricing makes the potential entrants believe that the predator is a low-cost firm. At least, they revise their beliefs and presume that the probability of the predator being a low-cost firm is very high. In this case, if the predator is not a low-cost firm, it successfully bluffs out the potential entrants through false signalling.",
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