Swindled

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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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