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swindling


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  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. 




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