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SWINDLE
swindle, cheat, rig
(noun) the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; “that book is a fraud”
victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, hornswoggle, short-change, con
(verb) deprive of by deceit; “He swindled me out of my inheritance”; “She defrauded the customers who trusted her”;
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
swindle (third-person singular simple present swindles, present participle swindling, simple past and past participle swindled)
(transitive) To defraud.
(ambitransitive) To obtain (money or property) by fraudulent or deceitful methods.
Synonyms
• See also deceive
• (to be swindled): be sold a pup (idiomatic, British, Australian)
• (to defraud): swizz (informal, mainly British)
Noun
swindle (plural swindles)
An instance of swindling.
Anything that is deceptively not what it appears to be.
Synonyms
• See also deception
• scheme
• swizz (informal, mainly British)
Anagrams
• Windles, wildens, windles
Proper noun
Swindle (plural Swindles)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Swindle is the 6989th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4793 individuals. Swindle is most common among White (84.6%) and Black/African American (10.77%) individuals.
Anagrams
• Windles, wildens, windles
Source: Wiktionary
Swin"dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swindled; p. pr. & vb. n. Swindling.] Etym: [See Swindler.]
Definition: 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.
Definition: The act or process of swindling; a cheat.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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