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swindle |
3 definitions found 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 1.6 [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" [syn: {rook}, {nobble}, {diddle}, {bunco}, {defraud}, {mulct}, {gyp}, {con}]
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