bilk
verb (used with object)
to defraud; cheat.
bilks
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present tense formof bilk (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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She soon falls prey to a shady scheme that bilks her out of a large sum of money.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2021
Attempting to escape her, Sally encounters another nightmare creature, who bilks her of much of her small stash of money with a sob story that’s clearly bogus.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2017
Johnny Wilkes, Johnny Wilkes, Thou greatest of bilks, How changed are the notes you now sing!
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
She makes you her servant; and when pay-day comes round, she bilks you: that is what you mean.
From Heartbreak House by Bernard Shaw
Who is it thwarts and bilks the inward MUST?
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
