Hypertext Webster Gateway: "swindle"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
Lammote . . . has swindled one of them out of three
hundred livres. --Carlyle.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Swindle \Swin"dle\, n.
The act or process of swindling; a cheat.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
swindle
n : the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme: "that book
is a fraud" [syn: {cheat}]
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: {rook}, {goldbrick}, {nobble}, {diddle}, {bunco},
{defraud}, {scam}, {mulct}, {gyp}, {con}]
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