Swindle

Quick meaning: Swindle is a verb meaning (transitive) To defraud.

Meaning

(transitive) To defraud.

More Meanings

1. (ambitransitive) To obtain (money or property) by fraudulent or deceitful methods.
2. (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.
3. An instance of swindling.
4. Anything that is deceptively not what it appears to be.
5. (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

She swindled more than £200 out of me.

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

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

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.

Word Forms

• swindles
• swindling
• swindled

Synonyms for swindle

Depending on context, synonyms include swizz, scheme, chisel, diddle, con, nobble.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gyp, bunco, defraud, cheat, nobble, mulct.

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