n : the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme: "that book
is a fraud" [syn: cheat]
v : deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my
inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted
her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little
change" [syn: rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, con]