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swindle v. [
victimize, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con] deprive of by deceit; "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"
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swindle n. [
cheat, rig] the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud"
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