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v. To take something from by fraud; swindle: defrauded the immigrants by selling them worthless land deeds.

v. To obtain money or property by fraud; to swindle

v. To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; ; -- with of before the thing taken or withheld.

To deprive of right, either by procuring something by deception or artifice, or by appropriating something wrongfully through breach of trust, or by withholding from another by indirection or device that which he has a right to claim or obtain; cheat; cozen: followed by of before the thing taken.

To defeat or frustrate wrongfully.

v. deprive of by deceit

"When used in such a manner the term defraud has a legal rather than a dictionary meaning, and the legal interpretation of fraud or defraud is applied to those acts which seek to obtain that which has monetary value and to do so in an manner deamed illegal."

defrauded    defrauding    defrauds   

cheat    rip off    chisel   

to defraud the revenue    fraudster   

defrauder   

short    short-change   

defrauded    defrauding   

cheat    overreach    bilk    rook    gudgeon    swindle    bunco    chouse   

Claud    Claude    Laud    Maud    Maude    Saud    abroad    applaud    aud    awed