swindle

1. 1.

   deprive of by deceit

   “He swindled me out of my inheritance”

   “She defrauded the customers who trusted her”

   Synonymsvictimizerookgoldbricknobblediddlebuncodefraudscammulcthornswoggleshort-changecon

   Broadercheat

   Narrowershort-change

Other forms of swindle

plural

swindles·

past tense

swindled·

present participle

swindling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about swindle

What does swindle mean?

swindle means "the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in swindle?

swindle has 2 syllables: swin-dle. The stress falls on "swin". In IPA it is /ˈswɪndəl/.

What is another word for swindle?

Close synonyms include cheat, rig, victimize, rook, goldbrick. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is swindle a common word?

swindle is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.