swindle
swindle is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
- 2.The act or process of swindling; a cheat.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- account
- application
- apply
- arrear
- bank
- bankrupt
- bankruptcy
- become
- behind
- behindhand
- bogus
- both
- break
- button
- check
- cheque
- debt
- debtor
- defalcation
- default
- defaulter
- dishonor
- draw
- duck
- fail
- failure
- fly
- gazette
- get
- gratis
- insolvency
- insolvent
- insufficiency
- lame
- left
- levanter
- make
- man
- meet
- minus
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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