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.

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• She now loves me, and would not defraud me of a pin. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Let men defraud you in life's barter, And you will be—a social martyr. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Several years later this same man attempted to defraud a leading firm of manufacturing chemists in New York, and was sent to State prison. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Dishonest manufacturers never yield a point in their efforts to defraud. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• It was indeed in appearance only; for their creditors were really defrauded of a part of what was due to them. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

整理:普雷斯利