Word

rook, v.
(rooked, rooking, rooks)

deprive of by deceit
<verb.social> freq. cnt.: 5 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1

bunco con defraud diddle goldbrick hornswoggle mulct nobble rook scam short-change swindle victimize

sample sentences

"He swindled me out of my inheritance"
"She defrauded the customers who trusted her"

verb frames

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
They %s him of all his money

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Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
They %s him of all his money

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Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
They %s him of all his money

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Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

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Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
They %s him of all his money

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Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

verb frames

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
They %s him of all his money

verb frames

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
They %s him of all his money

verb frames

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
They %s him of all his money

verb frames

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

verb frames

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
They %s him of all his money

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Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

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Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

swindle swindler

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semantic pointers

hypernym

cheat, rip off, chisel

hyponym

short-change, short