Defraud

Definition: Defraud

Defraud

Verb

1. 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".

Date "defraud" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Note: Defraud \De*fraud"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Defrauded; present participle verb or noun Defrauding.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Defraud

Synonyms: bunco (v), con (v), diddle (v), goldbrick (v), gyp (v), mulct (v), nobble (v), rook (v), scam (v), swindle (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Deception	Verb: deceive, take in; defraud, cheat, jockey, do, cozen, diddle, nab, chouse, play one false, bilk, cully, jilt, bite, pluck, swindle, victimize; abuse; mystify; blind one's eyes; blindfold, hoodwink; throw dust into the eyes; dupe, gull, hoax, fool, befool, bamboozle, flimflam, hornswoggle; trick.
Stealing	Swindle, peculate, embezzle; sponge, mulct, rook, bilk, pluck, pigeon, fleece; defraud; obtain under false pretenses; live by one's wits.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Defraud

English words defined with "defraud": Dead set, Defrauded, Defrauding, dishonest, dishonorable ♦ false pretence, false pretense, forgery ♦ honest, honorable ♦ implicate ♦ mail fraud ♦ raid. (references)

Specialty definitions using "defraud": Ambush ♦ customs examiner, CUSTOMS IMPORT SPECIALIST ♦ Escape ♦ Ponzi scheme ♦ QUEER CHECKERS ♦ SET, Shaving ♦ to defraud, To PINCH ON THE PARSON'S SIDE ♦ WHITEWASHED. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Criminal law : conspiracy to defraud (reference) Fraudulent Conveyances: A Treatise upon Conveyances Made by Debtors to Defraud Creditors (reference) Government Computers Add to Waste: Mass Conspiracy to Defraud (reference) How Gold Dealers Legally Defraud You-While the Industry Tries to Cover It Up (reference) Prescription for Profit: How Doctors Defraud Medicaid (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Benin	BENIN'S PROXIMITY TO NIGERIA MEANS THAT A NUMBER OF MALA FIDE NIGERIAN OPERATORS HAVE ESTABLISHED COMPANIES WHICH ARE LITTLE MORE THAN A POST OFFICE BOX AND FAX MACHINE AND WHOSE PURPOSE IS TO DEFRAUD FOREIGN WOULD BE INVESTORS. (references)
	Guinea	In 1997, the GOG uncovered a fraud scheme involving officials from the economic and trade ministries and the head of a French corporation in which both parties conspired to falsify documents and defraud the government of millions of USD. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Defraud" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 98.13% of the time. "Defraud" is used about 107 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	98.13%	105	31,781
Lexical Verb (base form)	0.93%	1	339,140
Noun (singular)	0.93%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	107	N/A

Expressions using "defraud": defraud smb. of smth. ♦ defraud the revenue ♦ to defraud. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "defraud"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mashtroj (bamboozle, befool, beguile, besot, bilk, cheat, chicane, chisel, cozen, deceive, defalcate, delude, diddle, do, finagle, fleece, flimflam, fob, fool, fudge, gyp, hocus, hoodwink, hose, impose, jockey, juggle, lead on, mislead, mump, nobble, overreach, palter, queer, ready up, shortchange, swindle, take advantage of, take for a ride), gënjim (beguilement), gënjej (bamboozle, beguile, cheat, deceive, fib, frig, gull, lie, string along with, tell fibs, tell lies). (various references)

Arabic		‏سلب بالاحتيال, ‏خدع (bamboozle, beguile, betray, bilk, bitch, bite, blind, bluff, brown, bubble, camouflage, catch, cheat, chisel, con, crook, deceive, deception, decoy, delude, diddle, do, dupe, entrap, fall for, feint, fiddle, fob, fool, fox, get round, give the lie to, gull, gyp, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, illusory, impose, intrigue, jape, job, leg pull, lure, mislead, mock, mystify, nick, overreach, pitch, play a trick, pose, prank, pull a fast one, pull his leg, ream, rook, sell, settle his hash, skin, skunk, slang, stick, string along, swank, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, victimize, wile). (various references)

Bulgarian		отнемам чрез измама, измамвам (abuse, befool, beguile, catch, chisel, chouse, clip, cross, dash, diddle, fix, flam, fob, fool, gaff, go back on, green, gull, hijack, kid, mislead, mock, nobble, overreach, play false, pluck, prey, pull a fast one, put across, put on, screw, sell, shaft, short-change, slip over, spoof, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, trim). (various references)

Chinese		欺诈 (Beguile, beguiled, Beguiling, cheat, Cheated, Cheating, Defrauded, Defrauding). (various references)

Czech		podvést (cheat, deceive, double cross, dupe, fool, guile, let down, pluck, rope, swindle, take advantage of, victimize), ošidit (beguile, cheat, con, diddle, pigeon, swindle, trick). (various references)

Danish		bedrage (cheat, deceive, to defraud). (various references)

Dutch		zwendelen (swindle), knoeien (botch, bungle, screw up, spoil, swindle), frauderen (swindle, to defraud). (various references)

Esperanto		mistifikaĉi (cheat, fool, swindle), fraŭdi (swindle). (various references)

Faeroese		svíkja (cheat, deceive, swindle), falsa (falsify, swindle). (various references)

Farsi		فریب (Abusive, Cheat, Deceit, Deception, Delusion, Fiction, Humbug, Intake, Jazz, Lurch, Lure, Mace, Seducement, Sophistry, Swindle, Temptation, Wile), کلاهبرداری کردن (Rook), گول زدن (Bamboozle, Beguile, Cajole, Cheat, Con, Deceive, Doodle, Dupe, Entrap, Fool, Gaff, Gouge, Gull, Gum, Gyp, Hoax, Hustle, Jockey, Outwit, Rogue, Swindle, Wheedle). (various references)

French		frauder (deceive, to defraud). (various references)

German		betrügen (be unfaithful, cheat, cheat on, deceive, dupe, fool, rook, swindle, to cheat, to deceive, to defraud, to trepan, trick). (various references)

Greek		εξαπατώ (beguile, bilk, cheat, cozen, deceive, delude, diddle, fake out, gull, pup, swindle, thimblering, to defraud, victimize), αφαιρώ με απάτη. (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"ו� ות (beguile, cheat, deceive, fraud, sting, swindle). (various references)

Hungarian		elsikkaszt (to embezzle, to misappropriate, to scrounge, to take away, to tamper with sg), csal (cheat, finagle, jockey, to cheat, to finagle, to nap, to renege, to sham, to sharp, to swindle, to trick). (various references)

Indonesian		merampas (bereave, deprive, despoil, seize), menipu (cheat, cozen, deceive, deceptive, delude, double-cross, dupe, hoodwink, outfox), mencurangi (commit a foul). (various references)

Italian		defraudare, deformare (deform, disfigure, distort, get deformed, lose one's shape, strain, twist, warp), truffare (cheat, deceive, fudge, palter, swindle), frodare (cheat, swindle, to defraud, victimise, victimize). (various references)

Manx		cleaysaghey. (various references)

Pig Latin		efraudday

Portuguese		defraudar (chisel, defalcate, embezzle, jockey, overpower, plunder, swindle, usurp). (various references)

Romanian		delapida (defalcate, delapidate, embezzle, misappropriate, peculate, steal), defrauda (defalcate, embezzle), frauda (cheat), înşela (abuse, bamboozle, beguile, betray, bluff, cheat, chouse, circumvent, cog, con, cozen, cuckold, deceive, delude, diddle, disappoint, do, do brown, do something crooked, double cross, dupe, fiddle, frustrate, gag, get round, gull, hocus, hoodwink, humbug, impose, jockey, juggle, mock, mystify, nobble, out-jockey, pigeon, queer, ramp, rook, sharp, shuffle, swindle, trick, victimize). (various references)

Russian		обманывать (befool, beguile, bilk, cheat, deceive, deceiving, delude, disappoint, do, double cross, flimflam, fob, fool into thinking, gag, gull, hocus, hoodwink, impose, jockey, juggle, kid, mump, practise deceit, practise deception, prey, pull a fast one, swindle, victimize). (various references)

Scottish		meall (a lump, beguile, cheat, deceive, disappoint, entice, lump, mass, mound). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		proneveriti (defalcate, embezzle, misappropriate, peculate). (various references)

Spanish		defraudar (belie, betray, dash, deceive, defeat, embezzle, let down, to defraud). (various references)

Swedish		svindla (diddle, rook, swindle), bedraga (beat, betray, cheat, cheat on, cozen, deceive, dupe, Fox, gyp, humbug, impose upon, sell, swindle, trick, two time), bedra (beat, betray, cheat, cheat on, cozen, deceive, dupe, Fox, gyp, humbug, impose upon, sell, swindle, trick, two time). (various references)

Turkish		dolandırmak (bilk, bunco, cheat, chisel, con, cozen, diddle, do, do down, do in, double cross, flimflam, gammon, gold brick, gull, gyp, have, hornswoggle, jockey, Nick, nobble, racketeer, rook, rotate, sell smb. a gold brick, sell smb. a pup, spoof, swindle, take in), hakkını yemek (infringe), elinden almak (bereave, deprive smb. of smth.), aldatmak (bamboozle, be unfaithful, bilk, cheat, cuckold, deceive, delude, do down, double cross, fake, feint, finagle, Fox, gammon, gull, gyp, have, hocus, hoodwink, hornswoggle, humbug, palter, play smb. false, put it over on, sell, sell smb. a packet, sell smb. a pup, spoof, string, stuff smb., take for a ride, take in, trick, two time, victimize). (various references)

Ukranian		відбирати (abstract, choose, denude, deprive, draft, draught, pick over), обманювати (baffle, bam, beguile, begunk, betray, bluff, bubble, buffalo, cheat, chouse, cozen, deceive, delude, do down, double cross, gouge, impose, mountebank, swindle, trick, victimize). (various references)

Welsh		hocedu (cheat, deceive). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	circumvenio, defraudat, defraudatus, defraudavi, defrauderis, destituo, fraudamur, fraudare, fraudasti, fraudati, fraudatis, fraudatus, fraudavit, fraudem, fraudes, fraudo. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Mark Chapter 10, Verse 19
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	TaV entolaV oidaV mh moiceushV mh foneushV mh kleyhV mh yeudomarturhshV mh aposterhshV tima ton patera sou kai thn mhtera
Latin	405	Vulgate	Praecepta nosti ne adulteres ne occidas ne fureris ne falsum testimonium dixeris ne fraudem feceris honora patrem tuum et matrem
Old English	990	West Saxon	Canst þu þa be-bode. ne unriht-hæmþu. ne slyh þu. ne stel þu. ne sege þulease ge-witnysse. fæcen ne do þu. wurðeþine fæder & þine moder.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Thou knowist the comaundementis, do thou noon auowtrie, `sle not, stele not, seie not fals witnessyng, do no fraude, worschipe thi fadir and thi modir.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Thou knowest the comaundementes: breake not matrimony: kyll not: steale not: bere not falce wytnes: defraude no man: honoure thy father and mother.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honor thy father and mother.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	You have knowledge of what is said in the law, Do not put any one to death, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness, Do not get money by deceit, Give honour to your father and mother.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Mark Chapter 10, Verse 19
Bulgarian	А Исус му рече; Защо Ме наричаш благ? Никой не е благ освен един Бог.
Cebuano	Nahibalo ikaw sa mga sugo: `Ayaw pagbuno, Ayaw pagpanapaw `Ayaw pagpangawat Ayaw pagsaksig bakak Ayaw pagpanikas, Tumahod ka sa imong amahan ug inahan."
Chinese	誡命 � 是曉得的、不可殺人、不可姦淫、不可偷盜、不可作假見證、不可虧 � 人、當孝敬父母。
Croatian	Zapovijedi znadeš: Ne ubij! Ne èini preljuba! Ne ukradi! Ne svjedoèi lažno! Ne otmi! Poštuj oca svoga i majku!"
Danish	Du kender Budene: Du må ikke bedrive Hor; du må ikke slå ihjel; du må ikke stjæle; du må ikke sige falsk Vidnesbyrd; du må ikke besvige; ær din Fader og din Moder."
Dutch	Gij weet de geboden: Gij zult geen overspel doen; gij zult niet doden; gij zult niet stelen; gij zult geen valse getuigenis geven; gij zult niemand te kort doen; eer uw vader en uw moeder.
Finnish	Käskyt sinä tiedät: `Älä tapa`, `Älä tee huorin`, `Älä varasta`, `Älä sano väärää todistusta`, `Älä toiselta anasta`, `Kunnioita isääsi ja äitiäsi`."
French	Tu connais les commandements: Tu ne commettras point d`adultère; tu ne tueras point; tu ne déroberas point; tu ne diras point de faux témoignage; tu ne feras tort � personne; honore ton père et ta mère.
Gaelic	Is aithne dhut na faintean: Na dian adhaltras: Na dian marbhadh: Na dian goid: Na tog fianuis bhreige : Na dian mealltaireachd. Thoir onair dhad athair is dhad mhathair.
German	Du weißt ja die Gebote wohl: "Du sollst nicht ehebrechen; du sollst nicht töten; du sollst nicht stehlen; du sollst nicht falsch Zeugnis reden; du sollst niemand täuschen; ehre Vater und Mutter."
Haitian Creole	Ou konn kòmandman yo: Piga ou touye moun; piga ou fè adiltè; piga ou vòlè; piga ou fè manti sou moun; piga ou twonpe moun; respekte papa ou ak manman ou.
Hungarian	A parancsolatokat tudod: Ne paráználkodjál; ne ölj; ne lopj; hamis tanubizonyságot ne tégy, kárt ne tégy; tiszteljed atyádat és anyádat.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Engkau sudah tahu perintah-perintah Allah, 'Jangan membunuh, jangan berzinah, jangan mencuri, jangan bersaksi dusta, jangan menipu, hormatilah ayah dan ibumu.'"
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Memang engkau tahu akan hukum Allah, yaitu: Jangan engkau membunuh, jangan engkau berzinah, jangan engkau mencuri, jangan engkau menjadi saksi dusta, jangan engkau menipu orang, dan lagi, hormatkanlah ibu bapamu."
Italian	Tu conosci i comandamenti: Non uccidere, non commettere adulterio, non rubare, non dire falsa testimonianza, non frodare, onora il padre e la madre».
Korean	네 가 계 명 을 아 나 니 살 인 하 지 말 라, 간 음 하 지 말 라, 도 � � 질 하 지 말 라, 거 �" 증 거 하 지 말 라, 속 여 취 하 지 말 라, 네 부 모 를 공 경 하 라 하 였 느 니 라'
Latvian	Tu bauðïus zini: tev nebûs laulîbu pârkâpt, tev nebûs nokaut, tev nebûs zagt, tev nebûs nepatiesu liecîbu dot, tev nebûs krâpt, tev bûs tçvu un mâti godât!
Maori	E matau ana koe ki nga ture, Kaua e puremu, Kaua e patu tangata, Kaua e tahae, Kaua e whakapae teka, Kaua e kaia, Whakahonoretia tou papa me tou whaea.
Modern Greek	Τας εντολας εξευρεις· Μη μοιχευσης, Μη φονευσης, Μη κλεψης, Μη ψευδομαρτυρησης, Μη αποστερησης, Τιμα τον πατερα σου και την μητερα.
Norwegian	Budene kjenner du: Du skal ikke drive hor, du skal ikke slå ihjel, du skal ikke stjele, du skal ikke si falskt vidnesbyrd, du skal ikke frata nogen hvad hans er, hedre din far og din mor.
Portuguese	Sabes os mandamentos: Não matarás; não adulterarás; não furtarás; não dirás falso testemunho; a ninguém defraudarás; honra a teu pai e a tua mãe.
Rumanian	Cunowti poruncile: ,,Sq nu preacurvewti; sq nu ucizi; sq nu furi; sq nu faci o mqrturisire mincinoasq; sq nu knweli; sq cinstewti pe tatql tqu wi pe mama ta.``
Russian	ъОБЕЫШ ЪБ� ПЧЕ�"Й: ОЕ � ТЕМА�'П�"ЕКУФЧХК, ОЕ Х�'ЙЧБК, ОЕ ЛТБ�"Й, ОЕ МЦЕУЧЙ�"ЕФЕМШУФЧХК, ОЕ П�'ЙЦБК, � ПЮЙФБК ПФ�"Б ФЧПЕЗП Й НБФШ.
Shuar	Yus akupkamu nékatsmek. Ju ainiawai: tsanirmawairap, mankartuawairap, kasamkairap, Chíkich shuar tsanumprurairap, anankartuawairap, apasha nukusha umirkatarum. Nu ainiawai" Tímiayi.
Spanish	Tú conoces los mandamientos: No cometas homicidio, no cometas adulterio, no robes, no des falso testimonio, no defraudes, honra a tu padre y a tu madre.
Swahili	Unazijua amri: `Usizini; Usiue; Usiibe; Usitoe ushahidi wa uongo; Usidanganye; Waheshimu baba na mama yako."`
Swedish	Buden känner du: 'Du skall icke dräpa', 'Du skall icke begå äktenskapsbrott', 'Du skall icke stjäla', 'Du skall icke bära falskt vittnesbörd', 'Du skall icke undanhålla någon vad honom tillkommer', Hedra din fader och din moder.'"
Thai	ท่านรู้จักพระบัญญัติแล้วซึ่งว่า `อย่าล่วงประเว�"ีผัวเมียเขา อย่ากระทำการฆาตกรรม อย่าลักทรัพย์ อย่าเป็นพยานเท็จ อย่าฉ้อเขา จงให้เกียรติแก่บิ�"ามาร�"าของตน'"
Ukrainian	Зна�"ш заповіді: Не вбивай, не чини перелюбу, не кради, не свідкуй неправдиво, не кривди, шануй свого батька та матір.
Uma	Nu'inca moto parenta to te'uki' hi rala Atura Pue': `Neo' mepatehi, neo' mobualo', neo' manako, neo' mosabi' boa', neo' mebagiu, pai' kana tabila' tina pai' tuama-ta.'"
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "defraud": defrauded, defrauder, defrauders, defrauding, defrauds. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Defraud" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deflaud, defrand, Defraoui, defraut, Dehradun, denfreude, Devereaux, D'evrard, Erfoud, Eyraud. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "defraud" (pronounced dufrô"d)
4	-f r ô" d	fraud.
3	-r ô" d	abroad, broad.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-f-r-u"
	-1 letter: farded.
	-2 letters: adder, dared, dread, dured, faded, fader, fared, feuar, fraud, readd, udder.
	-3 letters: dare, dead, deaf, dear, duad, dude, dura, dure, fade, fard, fare, fear, feud, frae, read, redd, rudd, rude, rued, urea.
	-4 letters: add, are, arf, dad, dud, due, ear, eau, era, fad, far, fed, fer, feu, fud, fur, rad, red, ref, rue, urd.
	-5 letters: ad, ae, ar, de, ed, ef, er, fa, re.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-f-r-u"
	+1 letter: defrauds, dreadful.
	+2 letters: defrauded, defrauder, dreadfuls.
	+3 letters: defrauders, defrauding, dreadfully.
	+4 letters: fluoridated, lifeguarded, safeguarded, surfboarded.
	+5 letters: disregardful, dreadfulness, understaffed.
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