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Definition of defraud

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Defraud (v. t.) 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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Deceive :: Deceive (v. t.) To deprive by fraud or stealth; to defraud.

Wipe :: Wipe (v. t.) To cheat; to defraud; to trick; -- usually followed by out.

Deceit :: Deceit (n.) Any trick, collusion, contrivance, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another. When injury is thereby effected, an action of deceit, as it called, lies for compensation..

Swindle :: Swindle (v. t.) To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property..

Defrauder :: Defrauder (n.) One who defrauds; a cheat; an embezzler; a peculator.

Bankrupt :: Bankrupt (n.) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors..

Trick :: Trick (v. t.) To deceive by cunning or artifice; to impose on; to defraud; to cheat; as, to trick another in the sale of a horse..

Rook :: Rook (v. t. & i.) To cheat; to defraud by cheating.

Defrauding :: Defrauding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Defrau.

Dishonesty :: Dishonesty (n.) Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness..

Peculation :: Peculation (n.) The act or practice of peculating, or of defrauding the public by appropriating to one's own use the money or goods intrusted to one's care for management or disbursement; embezzlement..

Cozen :: Cozen (v. t.) To cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way..

Cozener :: Cozener (n.) One who cheats or defrauds.

Chouse :: Chouse (v. t.) To cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money..

Defraudation :: Defraudation (n.) The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.

Rob :: Rob (v. t.) To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud; as, to rob one of his rest, or of his good name; a tree robs the plants near it of sunlight..

Gull :: Gull (v. t.) To deceive; to cheat; to mislead; to trick; to defraud.

Beat :: Beat (v. t.) To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out.

Counterfeit :: Counterfeit (adv.) Fabricated in imitation of something else, with a view to defraud by passing the false copy for genuine or original; as, counterfeit antiques; counterfeit coin..

Defraudment :: Defraudment (n.) Privation by fraud; defrauding.