[n] the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud"
[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"
Synonyms
bunco, cheat, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, gyp, mulct, nobble, rig, rook, scam, victimize