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Defraud

Defraud Meaning & Definition
Defraud Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of 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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Defraud: bunco | con | diddle | goldbrick | gyp | mulct | nobble | rook | scam | swindle | victimize

Related Terms | Find terms related to 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

See Also | beat | cheat | chisel | rip off | short | short-change

Defraud In Webster's Dictionary

\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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