English dictionary

defraud

/d/I/'fr/O/d/

Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

verb

deprive of by deceit

verb.social

Examples
She defrauded the customers who trusted her.

Synonyms bunco con diddle gip goldbrick gyp hornswoggle mulct nobble rook scam short-change swindle victimize

Source: WordNet 3.0
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 <i>defraud</i> a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with <i>of</i> before the thing taken or withheld.

verb

Source: webster1913