Synonyms for bilk
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1. bilkverb

   cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money

   Synonyms:
   baffle, thwart, frustrate, spoil, foil, elude, evade, cross, scotch

2. thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilkverb

   hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of

   "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"

   Synonyms:
   vitiate, mar, sweep, dumbfound, plunder, foil, scupper, mystify, cut through, pamper, flub, span, dun, rape, crucify, baby, regulate, bedevil, itch, screw up, ball up, indulge, interbreed, stick, cut across, corrupt, elude, get over, deflower, spoil, puzzle, gravel, violate, beat, mollycoddle, bungle, intersect, bollocks up, fumble, evade, rag, blow, bollix, torment, amaze, bewilder, coddle, cosset, frustrate, peril, scotch, featherbed, crossbreed, cross, get, louse up, perplex, botch up, bodge, traverse, bobble, baffle, muff, bollocks, pass over, pose, fluff, vex, mishandle, endanger, foul up, stupefy, flummox, track, hybridize, cover, despoil, muck up, bumble, mess up, impair, bollix up, botch, thwart, get across, expose, go bad, hybridise, cocker, nonplus

3. bilkverb

   evade payment to

   "He bilked his creditors"

   Synonyms:
   baffle, thwart, frustrate, spoil, foil, elude, evade, cross, scotch

4. elude, evade, bilkverb

   escape, either physically or mentally

   "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation"

   Synonyms:
   fudge, duck, hedge, dodge, skirt, frustrate, circumvent, baffle, foil, cross, elude, parry, evade, thwart, put off, spoil, sidestep, escape, scotch

Matched Categories

1. • Cheat
   • Deprive
   • Escape
   • Prevent

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1. bilkverb

   Synonyms:
   deceive (by not fulfilling an engagement), disappoint, elude

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1. Ron DeSantis:

   The amendment says, if you read it, that you have to complete your sentence. And I think most people understand you can be sentenced to jail, probation, restitution if you harm someone. You can be sentenced with a fine. People that bilk people out of money, sometimes that's an appropriate sentence. That's what the constitutional provision said.