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Meaning of mulct

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  mulct
      n 1: money extracted as a penalty [syn: {fine}, {mulct},
           {amercement}]
      v 1: deprive of by deceit; "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" [syn: {victimize}, {swindle}, {rook}, {goldbrick},
           {nobble}, {diddle}, {bunco}, {defraud}, {scam}, {mulct},
           {gyp}, {gip}, {hornswoggle}, {short-change}, {con}]
      2: impose a fine on; "he was fined for littering"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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