Meaning of DEFRAUD
| Pronunciation: | | di'frod
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| | Definition: | | [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" |
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| | Synonyms: | | bunco, con, diddle, goldbrick, gyp, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, swindle, victimize |
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| | See Also: | | beat, cheat, chisel, rip off, short, short-change | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
We have defrauded no man. --2 Cor. vii.
2.
Churches seem injured and defrauded of their rights.
--Hooker.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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