Hypertext Webster Gateway: "defraud"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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; 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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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" [syn: {swindle}, {rook}, {goldbrick}, {nobble}, {diddle},
{bunco}, {scam}, {mulct}, {gyp}, {con}]
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