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befraud

befraud verb: synonym of defraud.

Verb

befraud (third-person singular simple present befrauds, present participle befrauding, simple past and past participle befrauded)

  1. (nonstandard, rare, transitive) 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.1934, Albert Ernest Croft, Conditioning Buyer Personality
    • 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.1970, Missouri Historical Society, The Bulletin, volume 27, page 113
    Synonyms:
    defraud

Examples of befraud in a sentence

  • You talk ceaselessly about the 'fraud of 'those who make a business out of anti-Semitism.' Who is befrauding?1987, Moshe Zimmermann, Wilhelm Marr: The Patriarch of Anti-Semitism, page 104:
  • When grown up, once he went on a voyage in the company of his younger step-brother, who befrauded and deserted him twice over on a lonely island.2000, T. R. S. Sharma, C. K. Seshdri, June Gaur, Ancient Indian Literature: Tamil and Kannada, page 875:

Synonyms of befraud

Forms of befraud

third-person singular presentbefrauds
present participlebefrauding
past participlebefrauded
pastbefrauded

Origin of befraud

From be- + fraud.

Questions about befraud

What does befraud mean?
Befraud means synonym of defraud.
How do you use befraud in a sentence?
You talk ceaselessly about the 'fraud of 'those who make a business out of anti-Semitism.' Who is befrauding?
What part of speech is befraud?
Befraud is a verb.
What is the past tense of befraud?
The past tense of befraud is befrauded.

Words near befraud in the dictionary

  1. befoulments
  2. befouls
  3. befound
  4. befountained
  5. beframe
  6. befraud
  7. befrauded
  8. befrauding
  9. befrauds
  10. befraught
  11. befreckled

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