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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To cheat or defraud of money or property.
  2. v. To obtain by fraudulent means: swindled money from the company.
  3. v. To practice fraud as a means of obtaining money or property.
  4. n. The act or an instance of swindling.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To cheat or defraud. The word implies, commonly, recourse to petty and mean artifices for obtaining money which may or may not be strictly illegal.
  2. n. The act or process of swindling; a fraudulent scheme; an act of cheating; an imposition; a fraud.
  3. n. Anything that is deceptive or not what it is said or thought to be.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive to defraud (someone)
  2. v. intransitive to obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods
  3. n. an instance of swindling

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice.
  2. n. The act or process of swindling; a cheat.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
  2. v. deprive of by deceit

Etymologies

  1. Middle High German, from Old High German swintiln, frequentative of the verb swintan, compare Modern German schwindeln. (Wiktionary)
  2. Back-formation from swindler, one who swindles, from German Schwindler, giddy person, cheat, from schwindeln, to be dizzy, swindle, from Middle High German, from Old High German swintilōn, frequentative of swintan, to disappear. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (4)

Words with the same meaning

  1. cheat
  1. be sold a pup
  1. swizz
  1. scheme

same context (24)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. hoax
  2. quackery
  3. scam
  4. forgery
  1. trickery
  2. humbug
  3. deception
  4. bounder
  1. stratagem
  2. cad
  3. staggerer
  4. imposition
  1. villainy
  2. fraud
  3. arson
  4. villany
  1. chicanery
  2. cover-up
  3. ruse
  4. extortion
  1. butchery
  2. impostor
  3. thieving
  4. blackguard

rhymes (12)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Tindal
  2. Tindall
  1. Tyndall
  2. bindle
  1. brindle
  2. dwindle
  1. grindle
  2. kindle
  1. rekindle
  2. shindle
  1. spindle
  2. windle

reverse dictionary (67)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. gyp
  2. confidence game
  3. scam
  4. flimflam
  5. swiz
  6. bunco
  7. sting
  8. con
  9. bunco game
  10. bunko
  11. bunko game
  12. con game
  13. confidence trick
  1. hustle
  2. to pull a finch
  3. fake
  4. do
  5. double cross
  6. cheat
  7. out-and-out
  8. fast one
  9. welsh
  10. finagle
  11. bunko-man
  12. chouse
  13. crossbite
  1. diddle
  2. defraud
  3. pull
  4. Ponzi scheme
  5. shill
  6. victimize
  7. thimblerig
  8. skin game
  9. mulct
  10. beat
  11. foist
  12. mace
  13. grift
  1. goldbrick
  2. ride
  3. rip
  4. scale
  5. hijack
  6. bilk
  7. burn
  8. chisel
  9. cog
  10. clip
  11. confidence
  12. fiddle
  13. gaff
  1. suck
  2. plant
  3. fleece
  4. skin
  5. gouge
  6. rook
  7. take
  8. pigeon
  9. shark
  10. let
  11. lurch
  12. panic
  13. shave
  1. skelder
  2. touch

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