| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| defraud |
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| SYLLABICATION: | de·fraud |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  d -frôd |
| TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: de·fraud·ed, de·fraud·ing, de·frauds
To take something from by fraud; swindle: defrauded the immigrants by selling them worthless land deeds. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English defrauden, from Old French defrauder, from Latin d fraud re : d-, de- + fraudre, to cheat (from fraus, fraud-, fraud). | | OTHER FORMS: | de fraud·ation (dfrô-dsh n) —NOUN
de·frauder —NOUN
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