SWINDLE

swindle. Swindle, v.t. to cheat or defraud grossly or with deliberate artifice

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Swin″dle (?), 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. Carlyle.