different between defraud vs struts

English

Alternative forms

• defraude (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English defrauden, from Old French defrauder, from de- + frauder.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?.?f???d/
• Rhymes: -??d

Verb

defraud (third-person singular simple present defrauds, present participle defrauding, simple past and past participle defrauded)

1. (transitive) To obtain money or property from (a person) by fraud; to swindle.

   • I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer.

2. (archaic) To deprive.

   • 1872, William Goodell, "On Conjugal Onanism and Kindred Sins", Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery, vol. 9, page 63.

Related terms

• befraud
• defrauder

Translations

See also

• fraudster

Anagrams

• frauded

English

Noun

struts

1. plural of strut

Verb

struts

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of strut

Anagrams

• sturts, trusts

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse strúz, from Middle Low German strus, from Latin struthio, from Ancient Greek ????????? (strouthí?n)

Noun

struts m (definite singular strutsen, indefinite plural strutser, definite plural strutsene)

1. an ostrich (large flightless bird, genus Struthio)

References

• “struts” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse strúz, from Middle Low German strus, from Latin struthio, from Ancient Greek ????????? (strouthí?n)

Noun

struts m (definite singular strutsen, indefinite plural strutsar, definite plural strutsane)

1. an ostrich (as above)

References

• “struts” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Swedish strudz, probably borrowed from Middle Low German str?s, str?se, str?ts, str?tse, ultimately from Late Latin str?thi?, from Ancient Greek ????????? (strouthí?n).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??ts

Noun

struts c

1. ostrich; a large African bird
2. indefinite genitive singular of strut

Declension

Descendants

• Finnish: strutsi