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defraudverb to rob by the use of trickery or threatssenior citizens generally were too smart to fall for the fast-talking salesman's attempts to defraud them beat, bilk, bleed, cheat, chisel, chouse, con, cozen, diddle, do, do in, euchre, fiddle, fleece, flimflam, gaff, gyp, hose(slang), hustle, mulct, nobble(British slang), pluck, ream, rip off, rook, screw, shake down, short, shortchange, skin, skunk, squeeze, stick, stiff, sting, sucker, swindle, thimblerig, victimize extort, wrench, wrest, wringclip, gouge, nick, overcharge, soakexploit, milkdeceive, dupe, fool, gull, trickrope (in)betray, bitch, double-crossbamboozle, fast-talk sell a bill of goods to, take for a ride, take to the cleaners cheat, cozen, defraud, swindle mean to get something by dishonesty or deception.cheat suggests using trickery that escapes observation.cheated me out of a dollar cozen implies artful persuading or flattering to attain a thing or a purpose.always able to cozen her grandfather out of a few dollars defraud stresses depriving one of his or her rights and usually connotes deliberate perversion of the truth.defrauded of her inheritance by an unscrupulous lawyer swindle implies large-scale cheating by misrepresentation or abuse of confidence.swindled of their savings by con artists in the 14th century |