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- to obtain money or property by fraud; to swindle
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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.
We have defrauded no man. 2
Cor. vii. 2.
Churches seem injured and defrauded of their
rights. Hooker.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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