defraud
verb (used with object)
to deprive of a right, money, or property by fraud.
defrauder
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a word derived from
defraud.
Example Sentences
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Indeed, if the Trustee had done otherwise, the whim of the defrauder would have controlled the process that is supposed to unwind the fraud.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2011
Sole precaution on the part of the defrauder was that the money should be collected before the trickery was discovered.
From Time Magazine Archive
From the blackmailer, corruptionist and defrauder of one generation to the stolid Government bondholder of the next, was not a long step, but it was a sufficient one.
From Great Fortunes from Railroads by Gustavus Myers
"Did the embezzler of the spoils and the defrauder threaten woe also to the soldiers?"
From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Titus Livius
Doubtless he HAD told the boy all sorts of tales; perhaps he HAD declared himself to be the defrauded instead of the defrauder; he was quite capable of it.
From Kent Knowles: Quahaug by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
