defraud Meaning, Definition & Usage
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verb deprive of by deceit
rook; scam; gip; nobble; goldbrick; con; short-change; mulct; gyp; bunco; victimize; hornswoggle; diddle; swindle.
- 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
WordNet
De*fraud" transitive verb
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To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to ; -- with of before the thing taken or withheld.defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the stateWe have defrauded no man. 2 Cor. vii. 2.
Churches seem injured and defrauded of their rights. Hooker.