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Entry 2 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Swindle

/swĭn'-dəl/ · Swin·dle · IPA /ˈswɪnd(ə)l/
01 v. t. To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property.
imp. & p. p. Swindled; p. pr. & vb. n. Swindling
  1. 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.
02 n. The act or process of swindling; a cheat.
  1. 1.
    The act or process of swindling; a cheat.