swindle Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
cheat; rig.
- that book is a fraud
verb deprive of by deceit
rook; scam; gip; nobble; goldbrick; con; short-change; mulct; gyp; bunco; victimize; hornswoggle; diddle; defraud.
- 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

See Swindler.

imperfect & past participle Swindled ; present participle & verbal noun Swindling

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.