Defraud \De*fraud"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Defrauded; p. pr. &
vb. n. Defrauding.] [L. defraudare; de- + fraudare to
cheat, fr. fraus, fraudis, fraud: cf. OF. defrauder. See
Fraud.]
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 defraud a
servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the
thing taken or withheld.
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We have defrauded no man. --2 Cor. vii.
2.
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Churches seem injured and defrauded of their rights.
--Hooker.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
defraud
v : 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" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick,
nobble, diddle, bunco, scam, mulct, gyp, con]
WordNet (r) 2.0
99 Moby Thesaurus words for "defraud":
abstract, and, annex, appropriate, bag, bamboozle, beat, beguile,
beguile of, bilk, boost, borrow, bunco, burn, cheat, chisel,
chouse, chouse out of, circumvent, cog, cog the dice, con, cop,
cozen, crib, deceive, delude, diddle, do, do in, do out of, dupe,
embezzle, euchre, extort, filch, finagle, flam, fleece, flimflam,
fob, foil, fool, fudge, gouge, gull, gyp, have, hoax, hocus,
hocus-pocus, hoodwink, hook, humbug, lift, make off with, milk,
mulct, nip, outwit, pack the deal, palm, pigeon, pilfer, pinch,
poach, practice fraud upon, purloin, rip off, rob, rook, rope in,
run away with, rustle, scam, screw, scrounge, sell gold bricks,
shave, shoplift, shortchange, snare, snatch, snitch,
stack the cards, steal, stick, sting, swindle, swipe, take,
take a dive, take in, thieve, thimblerig, throw a fight, trick,
victimize, walk off with
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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