SWINDLING

Verb

swindling

present participle of swindle

Noun

swindling (plural swindlings)

The act by which somebody is swindled.

Anagrams

• windlings

Source: Wiktionary


SWINDLE

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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