English > swindle: 2 senses > noun 1, actMeaning | The act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme. |
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Synonyms | cheat, rig |
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Narrower | bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, hustle, sting, flimflam | A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property |
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gyp, gip | (sometimes offensive) an act of swindling or cheating |
holdout | The act of hiding playing cards in a gambling game so they are available for personal use later |
pyramiding | A fraudulent business practice involving some form of pyramid scheme e.g., the chain of distribution is artificially expanded by an excessive number of distributors / distributors selling to other distributors / distributors at progressively higher wholesale prices until retail prices are unnecessarily inflated |
scam, cozenage | A fraudulent business scheme |
shell game, thimblerig | A swindling sleight-of-hand game |
swiz | British slang for a swindle |
Broader | fraud | Intentional deception resulting in injury to another person |
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Spanish | aletazo, arana, embaimiento, embaucamiento, engañifa, engaño, estafa, fraude, mangancia, petardo, pufo, superchería, timo, tocomocho, trapacería |
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Catalan | enganyifa, engany, ensarronada, estafada, estafa, martingala, tripijoc |
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Verbs | swindle | deprive of by deceit |
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English > swindle: 2 senses > verb 1, socialMeaning | deprive of by deceit. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody PP |
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Model | They swindle him of all his money |
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Example | "He swindled me out of my inheritance" |
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Synonyms | victimize, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, hornswoggle, short-change, con |
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Narrower | short-change, short | cheat someone by not returning him enough money |
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Broader | cheat, rip off, chisel | deprive somebody of something by deceit |
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Spanish | dar gato por liebre, defraudar, embaucar, engañar, estafar, petardear, timar, victimizar |
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Catalan | defraudar, entabanar, estafar |
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Nouns | swindle | the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme |
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swindler | a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud / fraud |