noun
Meaning 1
A fine or penalty, especially a pecuniary one.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
mulct
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/mʌlkt/
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rhymes with -ʌlkt
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CMU ARPABET: M AH1 L K T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
To impose such a fine or penalty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To swindle (someone) out of money.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
money extracted as a penalty
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fine, amercement
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: penalty
Narrower terms: library fine
verb
Meaning 5
impose a fine on
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he was fined for littering
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: levy, impose
verb
Meaning 6
deprive of by deceit
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cheat, rip off, chisel
Narrower terms: short-change, short
History
Etymology
From Middle French mulcter (“to fine, punish”), from Latin mulcta (“penalty, fine”). Possibly a doublet of milk.
Across languages
Translations
9 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: глобявам (globjavam) — impose a fine
- Finnish: sakottaa — impose a fine
- French: mulcter — impose a fine
- French: verbaliser — impose a fine
- Polish: ukarać grzywną — impose a fine
- Portuguese: multar — impose a fine
- Russian: штрафова́ть (štrafovátʹ) — impose a fine
- Russian: оштрафова́ть (oštrafovátʹ) — impose a fine
- Spanish: multar — impose a fine