See defraud in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
verb
To get money or something else from by deceitful trickery:
bilk, cheat, cozen, gull, mulct, rook, swindle, victimize. (Informal) chisel, flimflam, take, trim. (Slang) diddle1, do, gyp, stick, sting. See honest
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