Swindle

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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           Lammote . . . has swindled one of them out of three
           hundred livres.                          --Carlyle.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Swindle \Swin"dle\, n.
     The act or process of swindling; a cheat.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  swindle
       n : the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book
           is a fraud" [syn: {cheat}, {rig}]
       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" [syn: {victimize}, {rook}, {goldbrick}, {nobble},
            {diddle}, {bunco}, {defraud}, {scam}, {mulct}, {gyp}, {con}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  183 Moby Thesaurus words for "swindle":
     abstract, abstraction, and, annex, annexation, appropriate,
     appropriation, bag, ballot-box stuffing, bamboozle, beat,
     beguile of, bilk, bleed, bleed white, boost, boosting, borrow,
     buffalo, bunco, burn, cardsharping, cheat, cheating, chicanery,
     chisel, chouse, chouse out of, clinquant, clip, cog, cog the dice,
     con, con game, confidence game, conversion, conveyance, cop,
     counterfeit, cozen, cozenage, crib, deceive, deception, defraud,
     defrauding, diddle, diddling, dishonesty, do, do in, do out of,
     dodge, dummy, dupe, embezzle, embezzlement, euchre, exploit,
     extort, fake, fakement, fiddle, filch, filching, finagle,
     fishy transaction, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, fool, forgery,
     frame-up, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, fudge, gerrymandering,
     gouge, graft, grift, gull, gyp, gyp joint, have, hoax, hocus,
     hocus-pocus, hold up, hoodwink, hook, humbug, illicit business,
     imitation, imposition, impostor, imposture, junk, knavery,
     liberation, lift, lifting, make off with, mock, mulct, nip,
     overcharge, overprice, overtax, pack the deal, palm, paste, phony,
     pigeon, pilfer, pilferage, pilfering, pinch, pinchbeck, pinching,
     pluck, poach, poaching, practice fraud upon, profiteer, purloin,
     put-on, put-up job, racket, rip-off, rogue, rook, run away with,
     rustle, scam, screw, scrounge, scrounging, sell, sell gold bricks,
     sham, sharp practice, shave, shoddy, shoplift, shoplifting,
     shortchange, simulacrum, skin, snare, snatch, snatching,
     sneak thievery, snitch, snitching, soak, stack the cards, steal,
     stealage, stealing, stick, sting, surcharge, swindling, swipe,
     swiping, take, take a dive, take in, theft, thieve, thievery,
     thieving, thimblerig, thimblerigging, throw a fight, tinsel, trick,
     trickery, victimize, walk off with, whited sepulcher