fleeced

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Fleece \Fleece\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fleeced}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Fleecing}.]
   1. To deprive of a fleece, or natural covering of wool.
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   2. To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially
      by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions
      and exactions.
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            Whilst pope and prince shared the wool betwixt them,
            the people were finely fleeced.       --Fuller.
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   3. To spread over as with wool. [R.] --Thomson.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Fleeced \Fleeced\, a.
   1. Furnished with a fleece; as, a sheep is well fleeced.
      --Spenser.
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   2. Stripped of a fleece; plundered; robbed.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

22 Moby Thesaurus words for "fleeced":
      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