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verb (used with object)
1.
to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.
2.
to obtain by fraud or deceit.
verb (used without object)
3.
to put forward plausible schemes or use unscrupulous trickery to defraud others; cheat.
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Swindles
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| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
noun
4.
an act of swindling or a fraudulent transaction or scheme.
5.
anything deceptive; a fraud: This advertisement is a real swindle.
Origin:
1775–85; back formation from swindler < German Schwindler irresponsible person, promoter of wildcat schemes, cheat, derivative of schwindeln to be dizzy (hence dizzy-minded, irresponsible), defraud, equivalent to schwind- (akin to Old English swindan to languish) + -(e)l- -le + -er -er1
1775–85; back formation from swindler < German Schwindler irresponsible person, promoter of wildcat schemes, cheat, derivative of schwindeln to be dizzy (hence dizzy-minded, irresponsible), defraud, equivalent to schwind- (akin to Old English swindan to languish) + -(e)l- -le + -er -er1
Related forms
swin·dle·a·ble, adjective
swin·dler, noun
swin·dling·ly, adverb
out·swin·dle, verb (used with object), -dled, -dling.
Synonyms
1. cozen, dupe, trick, gull.
1. cozen, dupe, trick, gull.
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