Swindle

v. t.	1.	To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property. [imp. & p. p. Swindled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Swindling .] Lammote . . . has swindled one of them out of three hundred livres. - Carlyle.
n.	1.	The act or process of swindling; a cheat.

Noun	1.	swindle - the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud" Synonyms: cheat, rig
Verb	1.	swindle - 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" Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, gyp, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, victimize

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