fleecing

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fleecing - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Fleece \Fleece\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fleeced; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Fleecing.]
     1. To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.
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     2. To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially
        by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions
        and exactions.
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              Whilst pope and prince shared the wool betwixt them,
              the people were finely fleeced.       --Fuller.
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     3. To spread over as with wool. [R.] --Thomson.
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