'Defraud' definitions:
Definition of 'defraud'
From: WordNet
verb
Definition of 'Defraud'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- We have defrauded no man. --2 Cor. vii. 2. [1913 Webster]
- Churches seem injured and defrauded of their rights. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'defraud'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstract,
- and,
- annex,
- appropriate,
- bag,
- bamboozle,
- beat,
- beguile,
- beguile of,
- bilk,
- boost,
- borrow,
- bunco,
- burn,
- cheat,
- chisel,
- chouse,
- chouse out of,
- circumvent,
- cog,
- cog the dice,
- con,
- cop,
- cozen,
- crib,
- deceive,
- delude,
- diddle,
- do,
- do in,
- do out of,
- dupe,
- embezzle,
- euchre,
- extort,
- filch,
- finagle,
- flam,
- fleece,
- flimflam,
- fob,
- foil,
- fool,
- fudge,
- gouge,
- gull,
- gyp,
- have,
- hoax,
- hocus,
- hocus-pocus,
- hoodwink,
- hook,
- humbug,
- lift,
- make off with,
- milk,
- mulct,
- nip,
- outwit,
- pack the deal,
- palm,
- pigeon,
- pilfer,
- pinch,
- poach,
- practice fraud upon,
- purloin,
- rip off,
- rob,
- rook,
- rope in,
- run away with,
- rustle,
- scam,
- screw,
- scrounge,
- sell gold bricks,
- shave,
- shoplift,
- shortchange,
- snare,
- snatch,
- snitch,
- stack the cards,
- steal,
- stick,
- sting,
- swindle,
- swipe,
- take,
- take a dive,
- take in,
- thieve,
- thimblerig,
- throw a fight,
- trick,
- victimize,
- walk off with