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DEFRAUD
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they defraud ... he / she / it defrauds
Past simple: defrauded
Past participle: defrauded
-ing form: defrauding
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deprive of by deceit
Example:
She defrauded the customers who trusted her
Synonyms:
bunco; con; defraud; diddle; goldbrick; hornswoggle; mulct; nobble; rook; scam; short-change; swindle; victimize
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "defraud" is one way to...):
cheat; chisel; rip off (deprive somebody of something by deceit)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "defraud"):
short; short-change (cheat someone by not returning him enough money)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Sentence example:
They defraud him of all his money
Derivation:
defrauder (a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud)
