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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SWIN'DLE, v.t. To cheat and defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud" [syn: swindle, cheat, rig] v
1: 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: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb (swindled; swindling) Etymology: back-formation from swindler, from German Schwindler giddy person, from schwindeln to be dizzy, from Old High German swintil?n, frequentative of swintan to diminish, vanish; akin to Old English swindan to vanish Date: circa 1782 intransitive verb to obtain money or property by fraud or deceit transitive verb to take money or property from by fraud or deceit Synonyms: see cheat • swindler noun II. noun Date: 1821 an act or instance of swindling ; fraud

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v.tr. (often foll. by out of) 1 cheat (a person) of money, possessions, etc. (was swindled out of all his savings). 2 cheat a person of (money etc.) (swindled all his savings out of him). --n. 1 an act of swindling. 2 a person or thing represented as what it is not. 3 a fraudulent scheme. Derivatives: swindler n. Etymology: back-form. f. swindler f. G Schwindler extravagant maker of schemes, swindler, f. schwindeln be dizzy

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Swindle Swin"dle, n. The act or process of swindling; a cheat.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(swindles, swindling, swindled) If someone swindles a person or an organization, they deceive them in order to get something valuable from them, especially money. A City businessman swindled investors out of millions of pounds... VERB: V n out of n • Swindle is also a noun. He fled to Switzerland rather than face trial for a tax swindle. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. Cheat, cozen, deceive, dupe, gull, trick, defraud, overreach, victimize, chouse, diddle, impose upon, practise upon, take in. II. n. Cheat, fraud, imposition, deception, chouse, piece of knavery.

Moby Thesaurus

abstract, abstraction, and, annex, annexation, appropriate, appropriation, bag, ballot-box stuffing, bamboozle, beat, beguile of, bilk, bleed, bleed white, boost, boosting, borrow, buffalo, bunco, burn, cardsharping, cheat, cheating, chicanery, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, clinquant, clip, cog, cog the dice, con, con game, confidence game, conversion, conveyance, cop, counterfeit, cozen, cozenage, crib, deceive, deception, defraud, defrauding, diddle, diddling, dishonesty, do, do in, do out of, dodge, dummy, dupe, embezzle, embezzlement, euchre, exploit, extort, fake, fakement, fiddle, filch, filching, finagle, fishy transaction, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, fool, forgery, frame-up, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, fudge, gerrymandering, gouge, graft, grift, gull, gyp, gyp joint, have, hoax, hocus, hocus-pocus, hold up, hoodwink, hook, humbug, illicit business, imitation, imposition, impostor, imposture, junk, knavery, liberation, lift, lifting, make off with, mock, mulct, nip, overcharge, overprice, overtax, pack the deal, palm, paste, phony, pigeon, pilfer, pilferage, pilfering, pinch, pinchbeck, pinching, pluck, poach, poaching, practice fraud upon, profiteer, purloin, put-on, put-up job, racket, rip-off, rogue, rook, run away with, rustle, scam, screw, scrounge, scrounging, sell, sell gold bricks, sham, sharp practice, shave, shoddy, shoplift, shoplifting, shortchange, simulacrum, skin, snare, snatch, snatching, sneak thievery, snitch, snitching, soak, stack the cards, steal, stealage, stealing, stick, sting, surcharge, swindling, swipe, swiping, take, take a dive, take in, theft, thieve, thievery, thieving, thimblerig, thimblerigging, throw a fight, tinsel, trick, trickery, victimize, walk off with, whited sepulcher