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

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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 6989^th 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

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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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