defraud
verb (used with object)
to deprive of a right, money, or property by fraud.
will defraud
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future tenseof defraud.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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They do not desire the freedom of the city whereby they will defraud the King or this city of any of its rights, customs and privileges.
From Time Magazine Archive
If they will do wrong; if they will quarrel; if they will defraud each other; if they will give way to the lusts and passions which war within them: how can they be at peace?
From Town and Country Sermons by Charles Kingsley
They must have authority to enact any laws for executing their own powers, or those powers will be evaded by the artful and unjust, and the dishonest trader will defraud the public of its revenue.
From Essays on the Constitution of the United States by Paul Leicester Ford
"You must do your best to win St. Udo's love," she whispered, earnestly, "else you will defraud him of his rights, and his ruin will be at your door."
From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Annie Ashmore
But if not, he will defraud him of his money, and he shall get him for an enemy without cause: 9.
