defrauding

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defrauding - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Defraud \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.
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           We have defrauded no man.                --2 Cor. vii.
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           Churches seem injured and defrauded of their rights.
                                                    --Hooker.
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