Definition of defrauds Defrauds
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What does defrauds mean?
Part of speech
🔤- defrauds, verb, present, 3rd person singular of defraud (infinitive).
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| defraud - 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" | ||
| victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con | ||
| rip off, chisel, cheat carve with a chisel; "chisel the marble" | ||
| short, short-change cheat someone by not returning him enough money | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- 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.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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defraud
To deceive someone deliberately in order to make a financial gain.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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defraud
de-frawd′, v.t. to deprive of by fraud: to withhold wrongfully: to cheat or deceive.—ns. Defraud′ment, Defraudā′tion. [L. defraudāre—de, from, and fraus, fraudis, fraud.]
Part of speech
🔤- defraud, verb, present, 1st person singular of defraud (infinitive).
- defraud, verb (infinitive).
