(v.t.) 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 defraud a servant or a creditor or the state; -- with of before the thing taken or withheld.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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