Swindle

Swin′dle

,

Verb.

T.

[

imp. & p. p.

Swindled

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Swindling

.]

[See

Swindler

.]

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.

Swin′dle

,

Noun.

The act or process of swindling; a cheat.

Swindle

SWIN'DLE

,

Verb.

T.

To cheat and defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property.

swindle

English

Verb

swindle ‎(third-person singular simple present swindles, present participle swindling, simple past and past participle swindled)

(transitive) To defraud (someone).
The two men swindled the company out of $160,000.
(intransitive) To obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods.

Synonyms

See also Wikisaurus:deceive
(to be swindled): be sold a pup (idiomatic, British, Australian)
(to defraud): swizz (informal, mainly British)

Translations

to defraud someone

Afrikaans:
Arabic: غَشَّ (ar) ‎(ḡašša), جَدَعَ (ar) ‎(jadaʿa)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 詐取 (zh), 诈取 (zh) ‎(zhàqǔ), 騙取 (zh), 骗取 (zh) ‎(piànqǔ), 騙局 (zh), 骗局 (zh) ‎(piànjú)
Dutch: oplichten (nl), zwendelen (nl)
Esperanto: trompi
Finnish: huijata (fi)
French: escroquer (fr), entourlouper (fr)
German: beschwindeln (de)
Icelandic: svindla á
Indonesian: menipu (id), mengecoh (id)
Japanese: 騙す (ja) ‎(damasu), 欺く (ja) ‎(azamuku)

Javanese:
Norman: rouôler, frauduler
Malay: tipu
Polish: szwindel (pl)
Portuguese: fraudar (pt)
Quechua: ch'achuy
Romanian: înșela (ro)
Russian: обма́нывать (ru) impf ‎(obmányvatʹ), обману́ть (ru) pf ‎(obmanútʹ), моше́нничать (ru) impf ‎(mošénničatʹ), жу́льничать (ru) impf ‎(žúlʹničatʹ), (colloquial) надува́ть (ru) impf ‎(naduvátʹ), наду́ть (ru) pf ‎(nadútʹ)
Spanish: estafar (es), timar (es), petardear (es)
Swedish: svindla, bedra (sv)
Thai: โกง (th) ‎(gohng), คดโกง (th) ‎(kót gohng)
Turkish: dolandırmak (tr)
Vietnamese:

to obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods

Afrikaans:
Arabic: غَشَّ (ar) ‎(ḡašša), جَدَعَ (ar) ‎(jadaʿa)
Chinese:

Cantonese: 欺騙, 欺骗 ‎(hei⁴ pin³)

Mandarin: 欺騙 (zh), 欺骗 (zh) ‎(qīpiàn)
Dutch: frauderen (nl)
Finnish: huijata (fi)
French: entourlouper (fr), escroquer (fr)
German: schwindeln (de)
Icelandic: svindla (is)
Indonesian: menipu (id)

Japanese: 騙る ‎(kataru), 騙取する ‎(henshu suru)
Javanese:
Malay: tipu
Maori: muremure
Portuguese: trapacear (pt)
Russian: обма́нывать (ru) impf ‎(obmányvatʹ), обману́ть (ru) pf ‎(obmanútʹ)
Spanish: estafar (es), petardear (es), trampear (es), timar (es)
Swedish: svindla
Thai: โกง (th) ‎(gohng), คดโกง (th) ‎(kót gohng)
Turkish: söğüşlemek (tr)
Vietnamese:

Noun

swindle ‎(plural swindles)

An instance of swindling.

Synonyms

See also Wikisaurus:deception
scheme
swizz (informal, mainly British)

Translations

an instance of swindling

Chinese:
Mandarin: 欺詐 (zh)
Czech: švindl (cs) m
Dutch: zwendel (nl) m
Finnish: huijaus (fi)
French: escroquerie (fr) f, entourloupe (fr)
German: Schwindel (de) m
Greek: απάτη (el) f ‎(apáti)

Icelandic: svindl n, svik (is) n
Japanese: 詐欺 (ja) ‎(sagi)
Norman: chiffonnage m
Malay: penipuan
Portuguese: fraude (pt) f
Russian: обма́н (ru) m ‎(obmán), жу́льничество (ru) n ‎(žúlʹničestvo), моше́нничество (ru) n ‎(mošénničestvo)
Spanish: timo (es) m, estafa (es) m
Swedish: svindel (sv), bedrägeri (sv)

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