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Fleeced definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FLEE'CED, pp. Stripped by severe exactions.
FLEE'CED, a. Furnished with a fleece or with fleeces; as, a sheep is well fleeced.

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1580 1. covered with or as if with a fleece 2. of a textile having a soft nap

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fleece Fleece, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fleeced; p. pr. & vb. n. Fleecing.] 1. To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool. 2. To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions. Whilst pope and prince shared the wool betwixt them, the people were finely fleeced. --Fuller. 3. To spread over as with wool. [R.] --Thomson.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fleeced Fleeced, a. 1. Furnished with a fleece; as, a sheep is well fleeced. --Spenser. 2. Stripped of a fleece; plundered; robbed.

Moby Thesaurus

beggared, beggarly, bereaved, bereft, deprived, disadvantaged, ghettoized, impoverished, in need, in rags, in want, indigent, mendicant, necessitous, needy, on relief, out at elbows, pauperized, poverty-stricken, starveling, stripped, underprivileged