Defraud

v. t.

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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 defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; - with of before the thing taken or withheld. [imp. & p. p. Defrauded; p. pr. & vb. n. Defrauding.] We have defrauded no man. - 2 Cor. vii. 2. Churches seem injured and defrauded of their rights. - Hooker.

Verb

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defraud - 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" Synonyms: bunco, con, diddle, goldbrick, gyp, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, swindle, victimize

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