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Webster 1913 Edition
Defraud
De-fraud′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Defrauded
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Defrauding
.] 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
; – with of before the thing taken or withheld. defraud
a servant, or a creditor, or the stateWe have
defrauded
no man. 2 Cor. vii. 2.
Churches seem injured and
defrauded
of their rights. Hooker.
Webster 1828 Edition
Defraud
DEFRAUD
,Verb.
T.
1.
To deprive of right, either by obtaining something by deception or artifice, or by taking something wrongfully without the knowledge or consent of the owner; to cheat; to cozen; followed by of before the thing taken; as, to defraud; a man of his right.We have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man. 2 Cor. 7.
The agent who embezzles public property, defrauds the state.
The man who by deception obtains a price for a commodity above its value, defrauds the purchaser.
2.
To withhold wrongfully from another what is due to him. Defraud not the hireling of his wages.3.
To prevent one wrongfully from obtaining what he may justly claim.A man of fortune who permits his son to consume the season of education in hunting, shooting, or in frequenting horse-races, assemblies, &c., defrauds the community of a benefactor, and bequeaths them a nuissance.
4.
To defeat or frustrate wrongfully.By the duties deserted-by the claims defrauded.
Definition 2024
defraud
defraud
English
Verb
defraud (third-person singular simple present defrauds, present participle defrauding, simple past and past participle defrauded)
- (transitive) To obtain money or property by fraud; to swindle.
- 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 29686887 , chapter II:
- I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer.
- 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 29686887 , chapter II:
Translations
to obtain money or property by fraud
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