verb (v)

• deprive of by deceit(verb.social)

  Example:
  She defrauded the customers who trusted her.
  

  Synonym:
  bunco, con, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize
  

  source: wordnet30
• 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.(verb)

  source: webster1913