About The Word Swindle
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Swindle
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What's The Definition Of Swindle?
[n] the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud"
[v] deprive of by deceit; "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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Swindle: bunco | cheat | con | defraud | diddle | goldbrick | gyp | mulct | nobble | rig | rook | scam | victimize Related Terms | Find terms related to Swindle: See Also | beat | bunco | bunco game | bunko | bunko game | cheat | chisel | con | con game | confidence game | confidence trick | cozenage | flimflam | fraud | gyp | holdout | hustle | rip off | scam | shell game | short | short-change | sting | swiz | thimblerig Swindle In Webster's Dictionary \Swin"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swindled}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Swindling}.] [See {Swindler}.]
To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to
swindle a man out of his property.
Lammote . . . has swindled one of them out of three
hundred livres. --Carlyle.
\Swin"dle\, n. The act or process of swindling; a cheat. |
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