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Sidebar: why do we say defrauding instead of just frauding? Isnt defrauding the opposite of frauding?

• jessedhillon 13y ago
  In this case the Latin verb is defraudare, and the French verb is defrauder so this may be a different usage. In general de- can mean both to take something away and to be of or about something. So this could be seen as about, of the taking of money through deception, i. E., through fraud.