| Main Entry: | fleece |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plunder, steal |
Synonyms: |
bleed, burn*, cheat*, clip, con, cozen, defraud, despoil, flimflam, gouge, hustle, jerk around, milk, mulct, overcharge, pluck, rifle, rip off, rob, rook, rope in, run a game on, sell a bill of goods, shaft*, strip, swindle, take for a ride, take to the cleaners |
Antonyms: |
give, offer |
| Main Entry: | bereft |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lacking; missing |
Synonyms: |
beggared, bereaved, cut off, deprived, destitute, devoid, dispossessed, divested, fleeced, impoverished, left without, minus, naked, parted from, robbed, shorn, stripped, wanting, without |
Antonyms: |
full, happy |
| Main Entry: | bilk |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cheat |
Synonyms: |
bamboozle*, beat, circumvent, con, deceive, defraud, disappoint, do*, fleece, flimflam, foil, frustrate, gyp, overreach, rook, ruin, snow*, swindle, thwart, trick |
Antonyms: |
give, give away |
| Main Entry: | bleed |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | extort |
Synonyms: |
blackmail, confiscate, deplete, drain, exhaust, extract, fleece, impoverish, leech, milk, mulct, overcharge, pauperize, put the screws to, rook, sap*, skin*, squeeze*, steal, stick*, strong-arm |
| Main Entry: | cheat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | defraud, fool |
Synonyms: |
bamboozle*, beat, beguile, bilk, bleed, bunco, burn, caboodle, chisel, con, cozen, crib, cross, deceive, defraud, delude, diddle, do a number on, do*, double-cross, double-deal, dupe, fast talk, finagle, fleece, flimflam, fudge, give bum steer, gouge, gyp, hoodwink, hose, jerk around, milk, mislead, pull one's leg, ream, rip off, rook, rope in, sandbag, scam, screw, shaft, short, shuck, skin, snow, stiff, sucker, swindle, take, take for a ride, take in, take out, trick, trim, two-time, victimize |
| Main Entry: | deceive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mislead; be dishonest |
Synonyms: |
bamboozle*, beat, beat out of, beguile, betray, bilk, buffalo, burn, cheat, circumvent, clip, con, cozen, cross up, defraud, delude, disappoint, double-cross, dupe, ensnare, entrap, fake, falsify, fleece, fool, gouge, gull, hoax, hoodwink, hook*, humbug, impose upon, lead on, outwit, play joke on, pull fast one, put on, rob, scam, screw, sell, skin, suck in, swindle, take advantage of, take for, take for ride, take in, take to cleaners, trick, victimize |
Antonyms: |
be honest |
| Main Entry: | defraud |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cheat, bilk |
Synonyms: |
bamboozle, beguile, burn, chouse, circumvent, clip, con, cozen, deceive, delude, do, do number on, do out of, dupe, embezzle, fleece, flimflam, foil, hoax, jive, milk, outwit, pilfer, pull fast one, rip off, rob, shaft*, shuck, stick*, sucker into, swindle, take in*, take to the cleaner's, take*, trick, victimize |
Antonyms: |
contribute, help, repay, support |
| Main Entry: | denude |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | strip |
Synonyms: |
bare, disrobe, expose, fleece, lay bare, peel, uncover, undress |
| Main Entry: | do |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cheat |
Synonyms: |
beat, bilk, chouse, con, cozen, deceive, defraud, dupe, fleece, flimflam, gyp, hoax, overreach, swindle, take for a ride, trick |
| Main Entry: | exploit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take advantage of; misuse |
Synonyms: |
abuse, apply, avail oneself of, bleed, capitalize on, cash in on, employ, exercise, finesse, fleece, get mileage out of, handle, impose upon, jockey, make capital of, make use of, maneuver, manipulate, milk, mine*, play on, play*, profit by, profit from, put to use, skin*, soak*, stick*, use, utilize, work |