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Meaning: Money extracted as a penalty Classified under: Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession Synonyms: amercement; fine; mulct Hypernyms ("mulct" is a kind of...): penalty (a payment required for not fulfilling a contract) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mulct"): library fine (fine imposed by a library on books that overdue when returned)
Meaning: Deprive of by deceit Classified under: Verbs of political and social activities and events Synonyms: mulct; nobble; rook; scam; swindle; hornswoggle; gyp; goldbrick; gip; diddle; defraud; con; bunco; short-change; victimize Context examples: He swindled me out of my inheritance / She defrauded the customers who trusted her / the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change Hypernyms (to "mulct" is one way to...): cheat; chisel; rip off (deprive somebody of something by deceit) Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "mulct"): short; short-change (cheat someone by not returning him enough money) Sentence frames: Somebody ----s somebody Sentence example: They mulct him of all his money
Meaning: Impose a fine on Classified under: Verbs of buying, selling, owning Context example: he was fined for littering Hypernyms (to "mulct" is one way to...): impose; levy (impose and collect) Sentence frames: Somebody ----s somebody "Hindsight is 20/20." (English proverb) "Every animal knows more than you do." (Native American proverb, Nez Perce) "What is learned in youth is carved in stone." (Arabic proverb) "No news is good news." (Dutch proverb) Useful links: Meaning of rip off Definition of library fine Pronunciation of impose Definition of levy Pronunciation of short
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