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
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
A man that is a thief, a cheater, a defrauder, will yet be faithful to him that will commit a charge to him to keep.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by John Bunyan
He, the defrauder of my fair fame, who plundered me of the first fruits of genius by infamous falsehood, who joined in plotting my destruction by arts which the basest cowards blush at!
From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Thomas Holcroft
