Crossword-Solution: DEFRAUD
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Defraud | v. t. | To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing taken or withheld. |
We have 40 clues for the answer “DEFRAUD”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Terrible fear in turkey, seeing gull | 1 answer |
| Rip off, as investors | 1 answer |
| DEFALCATE | 1 answer |
| Swindle, in a way | 3 answers |
| DEPRIVE of by deceit | 3 answers |
| chouse | 8 answers |
| Take for a ride | 10 answers |
| Mulct | 13 answers |
| Embezzle | 14 answers |
| Misinform | 14 answers |
| thieve | 15 answers |
| Purloin | 16 answers |
| Welsh | 18 answers |
| cozen | 23 answers |
| Rip off | 24 answers |
| Victimise | 26 answers |
| Ripoff | 27 answers |
| Delude | 33 answers |
| Entrap | 34 answers |
| gyp | 37 answers |
| Chisel | 38 answers |
| Rob | 40 answers |
| misdirect | 41 answers |
| *Hoodwink | 43 answers |
| flimflam | 45 answers |
| bilk | 45 answers |
| Fleece | 48 answers |
| Betray | 48 answers |
| diddle | 52 answers |
| Confiscate | 54 answers |
| Gull | 55 answers |
| Hoax | 58 answers |
| Bubble | 61 answers |
| Swindle | 67 answers |
| fiddle | 78 answers |
| Deceive | 82 answers |
| Cheat | 88 answers |
| Con | 90 answers |
| Take | 94 answers |
| Trick | 111 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DEFRAUD (5)
Finally, with the urging of middle-class Negroes, the government brought Garvey to trial for using the mails to defraud.
How admirable are his words! And the great blessing of riches, I do not say to every man, but to a good man, is, that he has had no occasion to deceive or to defraud others, either intentionally or unintentionally; and when he departs to the world below he is not in any apprehension about offerings due to the gods or debts which he owes to men.
When he has nothing left, must not his desires, crowding in the nest like young ravens, be crying aloud for food; and he, goaded on by them, and especially by love himself, who is in a manner the captain of them, is in a frenzy, and would fain discover whom he can defraud or despoil of his property, in order that he may gratify them? Yes, that is sure to be the case.
Balk.] To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor.
XXIII To curse the chilled insistence of the dawn Because the free gleam lingers; to defraud The constant opportunity that lives Unchallenged in all sorrow; to forget For this large prodigality of gold That larger generosity of thought, -- These are the fleshly clogs of human greed, The fundamental blunders of mankind.
Quotes with DEFRAUD (3)
Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his dark monarchy. They are his Court, and in his name they defraud and govern, enrich themselves and perpetuate their power. Even literacy they fear, for the written word is another channel of communication that might cause their enemies to become united. Their weapons are keen-honed, and they use them with skill. They will press the battle upon the world when their interests are t…
Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose?
Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his dark monarchy. They are his Court, and in his name they defraud and govern, enrich themselves and perpetuate their power.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Newsday, NYT, The Atlantic, Universal, WP.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1996–2023).