Definitions for fleeced

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Spelling: [fleest]

IPA: /flist/

Fleeced is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in fleeced (cdeeefl).

Definitions for fleeced

noun

1. the coat of wool that covers a sheep or a similar animal.
2. the wool shorn from a sheep at one shearing.
3. something resembling a fleece:
4. a fabric with a soft, silky pile, used for warmth, as for lining garments.
5. the soft nap or pile of such a fabric.

adjective

1. having a fleece of a specified kind (usually used in combination):
2. covered with fleece or a fleecelike material.
3. (of a fabric) having a softly napped surface.

verb (used with object)

1. to deprive of money or belongings by fraud, hoax, or the like; swindle:
2. to remove the fleece of (a sheep).
3. to overspread, as with a fleece; fleck with fleecelike masses:

Origin of fleeced

First recorded in 1520-30; fleece + -ed³

Examples for fleeced

Neither educated nor commercialized, he is fleeced by the buyers.

Did he want to enter into some partnership by which the Government was to be fleeced?

Some of the insiders made millions; the public was fleeced of millions.

But there are fools who do so, and they deserve to be fleeced.

He's fleeced four others that I know of on that plant—all perfectly legal.

The fleeced flock is to discover finally what is done with its wool.

He was not represented in the Raad (legislature) that oppressed him and fleeced him.

Lambs, it is true, gambol, but in due time they all get fleeced.

This opens a door to barefaced bribery and intimidation: some one will be fleeced.

After all, to him we were only Busn to be fleeced if possible.