tr.v., bilked, bilk·ing, bilks.

1. 1. To defraud, cheat, or swindle: made millions bilking wealthy clients on art sales.
   2. To evade payment of: bilk one's debts.
2. To thwart or frustrate: “Fate . . . may be to a certain extent bilked” (Thomas Carlyle).
3. To elude.

n.

1. One who cheats.
2. Obsolete. A hoax or swindle.

[Perhaps alteration of BALK.]

bilker bilk'er n.

verb

To get money or something else from by deceitful trickery: cheat, cozen, defraud, gull, mulct, rook, swindle, victimize. Informal chisel, flimflam, take, trim. Slang diddle, do, gyp, stick, sting. See honest/dishonest.

noun

A person who cheats: cheat, cheater, cozener, defrauder, rook, sharper, swindler, trickster, victimizer. Informal chiseler, crook, flimflammer. Slang diddler, gyp, gypper. See honest/dishonest.

v

Definition: cheat
Antonyms: give, give away

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IN BRIEF: To cheat out of something.

The man managed to bilk the creditors.

Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - snyde, fuppe, tage ved næsen
n. - snyder, snyderi

Nederlands (Dutch)
afzetten, betaling ontlopen, ontglippen, oplichter(ij)

Français (French)
v. tr. - escroquer, filouter
n. - filou, escroc

Deutsch (German)
v. - betrügen, prellen
n. - Schwindler, Betrüger

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - ξεζουμίζω, μαδώ, αφήνω απλήρωτο (χρέος), ξεφεύγω από

Italiano (Italian)
truffare

Português (Portuguese)
v. - enganar, deixar de pagar

Русский (Russian)
обмануть, надуть, уйти, не заплатив

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - engañar, estafar, defraudar
n. - engaño, estafa, defraudación

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - smita från

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
欺骗, 躲避, 避开, 逃债, 赖帐, 使受挫, 骗子, 诈骗

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 欺騙, 躲避, 避開, 逃債, 賴帳, 使受挫
n. - 賴帳, 騙子, 詐騙

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - ~을 떼어먹다, ~을 속이다, ~를 망쳐놓다
n. - 사기

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 妨げる, 踏み倒す, だましとる
n. - ペテン, 信用のおけない人物

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) غش, راوغ أو تملص من الدفع‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮רימה, התחמק מתשלום‬
n. - ‮רמאי, מעשה הונאה‬

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