mulct

mulct is a 5-letter English word with 7 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A fine or penalty, esp. a pecuniary punishment or penalty. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 13 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A fine or penalty, esp. a pecuniary punishment or penalty.
2. noun. A blemish or defect.
3. transitive verb. To punish for an offense or misdemeanor by imposing a fine or forfeiture, esp. a pecuniary fine; to fine.
4. transitive verb. Hence, to deprive of; to withhold by way of punishment or discipline.
5. noun. money extracted as a penalty

   Synonyms: amercement, fine

6. verb. impose a fine on

   "he was fined for littering"

7. verb. deprive of by deceit

   "He swindled me out of my inheritance"

   "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"

   Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, nobble, rook, scam, swindle

Synonyms

amercement, fine, bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, nobble, rook, scam, swindle, victimize

Common word forms

mulcts, mulcted, mulcting, mulctable

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