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1. (v.t.) defraud
to deprive of a right, money, or property by fraud.
Etymology: (1325–75; ME < OF defrauder < L dēfraudāre=dē-de - +fraudāre to cheat)
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1. (verb) victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con
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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1. (verb) defraud
to use dishonest methods to get money
They defrauded the government out of millions.
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1. (verb) defraud
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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