'Fleeced' definitions:
Definition of 'Fleeced'
From: GCIDE
- Fleece \Fleece\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fleeced; p. pr. & vb. n. Fleecing.]
- 1. To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions. [1913 Webster]
- Whilst pope and prince shared the wool betwixt them, the people were finely fleeced. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To spread over as with wool. [R.] --Thomson. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fleeced'
From: GCIDE
- Fleeced \Fleeced\, a.
- 1. Furnished with a fleece; as, a sheep is well fleeced. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Stripped of a fleece; plundered; robbed. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fleeced'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- beggared,
- beggarly,
- bereaved,
- bereft,
- deprived,
- disadvantaged,
- ghettoized,
- impoverished,
- in need,
- in rags,
- in want,
- indigent,
- mendicant,
- necessitous,
- needy,
- on relief,
- out at elbows,
- pauperized,
- poverty-stricken,
- starveling,
- stripped,
- underprivileged