Swindle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To cheat or defraud of money or property.
  • v. To obtain by fraudulent means: swindled money from the company.
  • verb-intransitive. To practice fraud as a means of obtaining money or property.
  • n. The act or an instance of swindling.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. to defraud (someone)
  • v. to obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods
  • n. an instance of swindling
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice.
  • n. The act or process of swindling; a cheat.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To cheat or defraud. The word implies, commonly, recourse to petty and mean artifices for obtaining money which may or may not be strictly illegal.
  • n. The act or process of swindling; a fraudulent scheme; an act of cheating; an imposition; a fraud.
  • n. Anything that is deceptive or not what it is said or thought to be.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
  • v. deprive of by deceit
  • Verb Form
    swindled    swindles    swindling   
    Form
    swindled    swindling   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    cheat    be sold a pup    swizz    scheme   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Tindal    Tindall    Tyndall    bindle    brindle    dwindle    grindle    kindle    rekindle    shindle   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    hoax    quackery    scam    forgery    trickery    humbug    deception    bounder    stratagem    cad