English to English verb
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deprive of by deceit | | Example: 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
source: wordnet30
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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. | | source: webster1913
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