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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme;
- Example: "that book is a fraud"
[syn: swindle, cheat, rig]


VERB (1)

1. deprive of by deceit;
- Example: "He swindled me out of my inheritance"
- Example: "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"
- Example: "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]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
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         Lammote . . . has swindled one of them out of three
         hundred livres.                          --Carlyle.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Swindle \Swin"dle\, n.
   The act or process of swindling; a cheat.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

swindle
    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]