What are some alternative words for defraud?
Synonyms for defraud
dɪˈfrɔd
This thesaurus page is about all possible synonyms, equivalent, same meaning and similar words for the term defraud.
Princeton's WordNet
victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con(verb)
deprive of by deceit
"He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"
Synonyms:
rook, cabbage, fiddle, hook, nobble, victimize, gip, shirk, goldbrick, swindle, con, memorise, snatch, diddle, lift, gyp, kidnap, abstract, toy, abduct, pilfer, filch, purloin, snarf, short-change, hornswoggle, play, victimise, sneak, bunco, pinch, swipe, short, memorize, learn, scam, mulct, shrink from
Dictionary of English Synonymes
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
defraud(v)
Synonyms:
cheat
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "defraud":
Words popularity by usage frequency
rank | word | |
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#424 | learn | |
#516 | play | |
#746 | short | |
#1475 | abstract | |
#2529 | con | |
#2897 | toy | |
#4499 | lift | |
#5613 | hook | |
#6230 | cheat | |
#11065 | scam | |
#16203 | sneak | |
#16326 | snatch | |
#16414 | cabbage | |
#17127 | pinch | |
#18731 | fiddle | |
#30329 | deceive | |
#31211 | disappoint | |
#33601 | memorize | |
#35780 | rook | |
#37632 | kidnap | |
#38462 | swipe | |
#42454 | gip | |
#49972 | defraud | |
#58296 | swindle | |
#68256 | shirk | |
#72473 | diddle | |
#74450 | memorise | |
#87124 | abduct | |
#96993 | snarf | |
#104699 | delude | |
#113787 | gyp | |
#138234 | bunco | |
#164852 | victimize | |
#176519 | filch | |
#199693 | pilfer |
How to use defraud in a sentence?
Mr. Balwani looks forward to trial because he did not defraud anyone, and it will be an honor to defend him vigorously.
For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress.
Donald Trump is nothing but a con man who will say anything to defraud the American people like he did at Trump University, taking four businesses into bankruptcy or hiring foreign workers over Americans, the crowd at Trump's event wasn't applauding and the American people aren't either.
It is unlikely because the people receiving the shot have not committed a crime unless they actively conspired to defraud somebody which the end-user did not, people who administered the drug may have conspired to obtain it under false pretenses, which we dont know yet, but the patient did not do that.
We are confident that he will be fully exonerated, it is clear that Mr. Shkreli never intended to violate the law, nor did he ever intend to defraud anyone.
Translations for defraud
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- احتيالArabic
- измамвамBulgarian
- defraudar, estafarCatalan, Valencian
- betrügenGerman
- timar, defraudarSpanish
- huijataFinnish
- escroquer, arnaquerFrench
- 詐取, 騙し取る, 騙取Japanese
- defraudarPortuguese
- ch'achuyQuechua
- frauda, defraudaRomanian
- выма́нивать, моше́нничать, обма́нывать, обману́ть, вы́манитьRussian
- ăn gianVietnamese
- דעפראַודYiddish
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