defraud

1. 1.

   deprive of by deceit

   “He swindled me out of my inheritance”

   “She defrauded the customers who trusted her”

   Synonymsvictimizeswindlerookgoldbricknobblediddlebuncoscammulcthornswoggleshort-changecon

   Broadercheat

   Narrowershort-change

Other forms of defraud

past tense

defrauded·

present participle

defrauding·

third person

defrauds·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about defraud

What does defraud mean?

defraud means "deprive of by deceit".

How many syllables are in defraud?

defraud has 2 syllables: de-fraud. The stress falls on "fraud". In IPA it is /dɪˈfɹɔd/.

What is another word for defraud?

Close synonyms include victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is defraud a common word?

defraud is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with defraud?

1 word rhymes with defraud. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.