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Swindle

Swindle Meaning & Definition
Swindle Definition And Meaning

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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