Swindle

/ˈswɪnd(ə)l/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To defraud..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To defraud.
2. (ambitransitive) To obtain (money or property) by fraudulent or deceitful methods.
3. (chess) For a player in a losing position to play a clever move that provokes an error from the opponent, thus achieving a win or a draw.
4. An instance of swindling.
5. Anything that is deceptively not what it appears to be.
6. (chess) An instance wherein a player in a losing position plays a clever move that provokes an error from the opponent, thus achieving a win or a draw.

Example Sentences

The two men swindled the company out of $160,000.

Such Nations cannot have a King to command them; can only have this or the other scandalous swindling Copper Captain, constitutional Gilt Mountebank, or other the like unsalutary entity by way of King; and the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children in a frightful and tragical manner, little noticed in the Penny Newspapers and Periodical Literatures of this generation.

That word is bezzle. It describes the period in which an embezzler has stolen a man's money but the victim does not yet realize he's been swindled.

She swindled more than £200 out of me.

There were men there who had committed merciless robberies, cruel murders, heartless swindles, abominable depravities.

[T]he scandal was the pretty common one of a corrupt agreement between hotel proprietors and a salesman who took and gave secret commissions, so that his business had a monopoly of all the drink sold in the place. It wasn't even an open slavery like an ordinary tied house; it was a swindle at the expense of everybody the manager was supposed to serve.

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Word Forms

• swindles
• swindling
• swindled

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