Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Defraud

Defraud , transitive verb

[Latin defraudare; de- + fraudare to cheat, from fraus, fraudis, fraud: compare Old French defrauder. See Fraud.]

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.
We have defrauded no man. — 2 Cor. vii. 2
Churches seem injured and defrauded of their rights. — Hooker