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Deprive of by deceit
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defraud
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., from Old French defrauder , from Latin defraudare "to defraud, cheat," from de- "thoroughly" (see de- ) + fraudare "to cheat, swindle" (see fraud ). Related: Defrauded ; defrauding .\n
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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; ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN bank ▪ The appellant was concerned in a conspiracy to defraud the clearing banks of £60,000. company ▪ They become illegal only when they are used to defraud cable companies . conspiracy ▪ They were charged with conspiracy ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. To obtain money or property by fraud; to swindle.
Usage examples of defraud.
Congress passed the first of a series of acts to exclude from the mails publications designed to defraud the public or corrupt its morals.
When we happened to find those places already tenanted by other men, we forced them by violence to quit the premises, and defrauded the miserable victims of prostitution of the mean salary the law allows them, after compelling them to yield to our brutality.
The grand jury subsequently indicted, and the report running tonight was on how the men defrauded the public by trying to blame the attack on antiabortion sympathizers and using a volatile issue for their own gain.
Costa had met with many misfortunes, as he told Casanova, and had himself been defrauded.
I made him return 440 pesos to a poor Igorot whom he had grossly defrauded.
He does not know that his inward enjoyment consists in craftiness, defrauding, deceit, clandestine theft, and many other evils, and that this enjoyment, made up of so many enjoyments of the lusts of evil, governs each and all things of his external thought, in which he enjoys appearing just and sincere.
The Creeks and Choctaws remained on their individual plots, but great numbers of them were defrauded by land companies.
Creeks, defrauded of their land, short of money and food, refused to go West.
He saw them approach--nay, fancied he beheld the mutual expression of their sympathizing eyes, and he turned away, and hurried homeward, with the feeling of a heart already overborne, and defrauded in all its hopes and expectations.
Sending at once for a locksmith, he had all the drawers broken open, and soon acquired the irrefutable evidence that the Mutual Credit had been defrauded of sums, which, as far as now known, amount to upwards of twelve millions.
Favoral, but for the stockholders who have been impudently defrauded, the twelve millions which are missing from the funds of the Mutual Credit.
To it the pluckiest of the defrauded taos now repaired in search of redress, Blas with the rest.
They were then arrested for defrauding the company by refusing to work, and sentenced to three months in the Galveston county jail.
When the Marquis de Tregars returned to Paris, and they set about defrauding him of his fortune, she did not hesitate a moment to become his mistress again.
Lydia, Winston Barnett and I have been defrauding the governments of three countries: England, the United States, and France .