HyperDic: swindle

English > 2 senses of the word *swindle*:
VERB	social	swindle, victimize, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, hornswoggle, short-change, con	deprive of by deceit
NOUN	act	swindle, cheat, rig	the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

swindle > pronunciation
Sounds	swih'ndahl
Rhymes	abdominal ... zoological: 2115 rhymes with ahl...

English > *swindle*: 2 senses > noun 1, act
Meaning	The act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme.
Synonyms	cheat, rig
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
	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
Spanish	aletazo, arana, embaimiento, embaucamiento, engañifa, engaño, estafa, fraude, mangancia, petardo, pufo, superchería, timo, tocomocho, trapacería
Catalan	enganyifa, engany, ensarronada, estafada, estafa, martingala, tripijoc
Verbs	swindle	deprive of by deceit

English > *swindle*: 2 senses > verb 1, social
Meaning	deprive of by deceit.
Pattern	Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody PP
Model	They swindle him of all his money
Example	"He swindled me out of my inheritance"
Synonyms	victimize, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, hornswoggle, short-change, con
Narrower	short-change, short	cheat someone by not returning him enough money
Broader	cheat, rip off, chisel	deprive somebody of something by deceit
Spanish	dar gato por liebre, defraudar, embaucar, engañar, estafar, petardear, timar, victimizar
Catalan	defraudar, entabanar, estafar
Nouns	swindle	the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
Nouns	swindler	a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud / fraud

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