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bilk

/bilk/US // bɪlk //UK // (bɪlk) //

胆小鬼

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to defraud; cheat: He bilked the government of almost a million dollars.
    • : to evade payment of.
    • : to frustrate: a career bilked by poor health.
    • : to escape from; elude: to bilk one's pursuers.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a cheat; swindler.
    • : a trick; fraud; deceit.

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Examples

  • The lawsuit alleged that Danone used these claims to bilk consumers out of more than $100 million.

  • "He told me Andrew had tried to bilk $50 million out of Mrs. Mellon," said Toben.

  • Con artists routinely hack into accounts to impersonate people and bilk money from strangers.

  • Bubbly, I contrived to bilk the doctor, by going twice a day to a place with a hole in it, over some large cookery vapours.

  • But wouldn't it have been a dirty act to bilk him of his money, all the more as it would have been so easy?

  • Im so contented now Im getting over-weight, and youd bilk me again.

  • Have you set another man on the track with a view to bilk me of my promised fee?

  • A new planet of the eleventh magnitude was discovered by Luther, at the observatory of Bilk, near Dusseldorf.