| 1. cheating, fraud, deception. defraud, cheat, deceive, con. swindleswindle , v. 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. arlyle.swindle swindle, n. the act or process of swindling; a cheat.swindle the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme: that book is a fraud [syn: cheat] deprive of by deceit; he swindled me out of my inheritance; she defrauded the customers who trusted her; the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change [syn: rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, con] |
