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Meanings of
swindle
in English
Catalan
estafa
Spanish
fraude
Back to the meaning
A dishonest act.
rig
cheat
Catalan
estafa
Portuguese
fraudar
Catalan
defraudar
Spanish
embaucar
Back to the meaning
Deprive of by deceit.
con
rook
scam
gyp
defraud
gip
diddle
bunco
nobble
victimize
Portuguese
fraudar
Synonyms
Examples for "
rig
"
rig
cheat
Examples for "
rig
"
1
The company deployed its second drilling
rig
in Albania earlier this year.
2
The second
rig
is expected at the port in the coming days.
3
But the motion capture system needs to feed a very animator-friendly
rig
.
4
China said the
rig
was shifted because its mission had been completed.
5
In the mean time, keep the hatches on and
rig
the pumps.
1
This week, the fight against drugs, but sport athletes continue to
cheat
.
2
Biden has often said publicly he worries Trump would try to
cheat
.
3
I return with everybody's least favourite subject: the premature Oscar
cheat
sheet.
4
You'll
cheat
the movement instead of simply doing it the right way.
5
It's that time of year again... nerves,
cheat
sheets and general panic.
Usage of
swindle
in English
1
You have to work your way in or
swindle
your way in.
2
He was even duped into believing in the cheap
swindle
of table-tipping.
3
But a woman is an absolutely unreliable partner in any straight
swindle
.
4
Beside the Casino where roulette is played there is another
swindle
-
the
restaurants
.
5
One man said there was a
swindle
somewhere - no fox terriers.
6
Instead, you tried to
swindle
her parents out of a million dollars.
7
There is no one in the galaxy left for you to
swindle
.
8
On the other hand, he did
swindle
me out of twenty bucks.
9
There exists, I fear, somewhere in this business a conspiracy to
swindle
.
10
They
swindle
us, and pay their priests for absolution with our money.
11
He'd never seen Pendean, of course, which made the Doria
swindle
possible.
12
Let us take, for example, that pathetic
swindle
,
the Bridge of Sighs.
13
I hoped it might teach him not to
swindle
foreigners in future.'
14
A man will
swindle
or seduce who will not sell his country.
15
He wants to
swindle
both of us-thatis, those whom we represent.
16
Every Bavarian regiment is being sent into it, and it's a
swindle
.
Other examples for "swindle"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
swindle
Noun
Singular
Verb
Indicative · Present
Frequent collocations
gigantic swindle
infernal swindle
old swindle
epic swindle
financial swindle
More collocations
Translations for
swindle
Catalan
estafa
engany
tripijoc
martingala
ensarronada
estafada
defraudar
estafar
Spanish
fraude
engaño
embaucar
multar
defraudar
engañar
victimizar
timar
estafar
Portuguese
fraudar
defraudar
calotear
estafar
trapacear
Swindle
through the time
Swindle
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common