swindle has definitions from the fields of law,criminal law
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[ verb ] deprive of by deceit

Examples

"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"

Used in print

(Jim Thompson, The Transgressors....)

You think that Highlands swindled you and I helped ' em do it .

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 5600
3
[ noun ] (law,criminal law) the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

Synonyms

rig cheat

Examples

: "that book is a fraud"

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