'Swindle' definitions:

Definition of 'swindle'

From: WordNet
noun
The act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud" [syn: swindle, cheat, rig]
verb
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" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con]

Definition of 'Swindle'

From: GCIDE
  • Swindle \Swin"dle\, n. The act or process of swindling; a cheat. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Swindle'

From: GCIDE
  • Swindle \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. [1913 Webster]
  • Lammote . . . has swindled one of them out of three hundred livres. --Carlyle. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'swindle'

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