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  1. 1. v. t. 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: opted
  2. 2. v. deprive of by deceit Source: wordnet
  3. 3. 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. Source: webster
  4. 4. To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitfuldevice; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; tocheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or thestate; -- 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. Source: adambom
  5. 5. v:100 v deprive of by deceit Source: ecdict

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