Category:Swindle

Swin"dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swindled; p. pr. & vb. n. Swindling.] Etym: [see swindler.]

Defn: 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.

Swindle Swin"dle, n.

Defn: the act or process of swindling; a cheat.