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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 1.6 [wn]:
defraud
v : deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"
[syn: {swindle}, {rook}, {nobble}, {diddle}, {bunco}, {mulct},
{gyp}, {con}]
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