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befraud

verb

Etymology

From be- + fraud.

  1. derived from fraus — “deceit, injury, offence”
  2. derived from fraude
  3. inherited from fraude
  4. formed as befraud — “be- + fraud”

Definitions

  1. Synonym of defraud.

    • Her new experiences were to change her habits of consumption further and to make her more susceptible to the befrauding frills that she could now afford, but which would exploit her.
    • Then I believed I had learned to know the measure of earthly suffering; but all sufferings of the world are nothing compared to the sufferings of the befrauded German emigrants in North America.
    • You talk ceaselessly about the 'fraud of 'those who make a business out of anti-Semitism.' Who is befrauding? In what manner?

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA