swindle : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: swindle	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for swindle
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
swindle n the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud" Synonym(s): swindle, cheat, rig 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" Synonym(s): victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con
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.