definition of
[swindle]

[1] #1 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". wn

[2] #2 swindle n. [cheat, rig] the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud". wn