Swindle

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  • intransitive verb. To cheat or defraud of money or property.
  • intransitive verb. To obtain by fraudulent means.
  • intransitive verb. To practice fraud as a means of obtaining money or property.
  • noun. The act or an instance of swindling.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To cheat or defraud. The word implies, commonly, recourse to petty and mean artifices for obtaining money which may or may not be strictly illegal.
  • noun. The act or process of swindling; a fraudulent scheme; an act of cheating; an imposition; a fraud.
  • noun. Anything that is deceptive or not what it is said or thought to be.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice.
  • noun. The act or process of swindling; a cheat.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. to defraud (someone)
  • verb. to obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods
  • noun. an instance of swindling
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
  • verb. deprive of by deceit
    • Word Usage
    "The swindle is the implicit assumption this will raise the overall correlation between compensation and quality from approximately zero to approximately one."
    Form
    swindled  swindling  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Tindal  Tindall  Tyndall  bindle  brindle  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    arson  blackguard  bounder  butchery  cad  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    abstract  abstraction  and  annex  annexation  
    verb-form
    swindled  swindles  swindling  
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