Befraud

Quick meaning: Befraud is a verb meaning (transitive, rare, nonstandard) Synonym of defraud.

Meaning

(transitive, rare, nonstandard) Synonym of defraud.

Example Sentences

You talk ceaselessly about the 'fraud of 'those who make a business out of anti-Semitism.' Who is befrauding? In what manner?

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.

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.

Word Forms

• befrauds
• befrauding
• befrauded

Synonyms for befraud

Depending on context, synonyms include defraud.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fraud, scam, deceive, trick, spoof, abuse.

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