| 单词 | swindle |
| 释义 | swindle (once / 1473 pages) vn To swindle is to cheat or steal. You can swindle money, goods, ideas, and anything else that can be stolen, but be careful, because someone can also swindle you. In the late 1700s, the verb swindle formed from swindler, which means “giddy person, cheat.” Swindle can be a noun or a verb. When you get something by less than honest means, that’s a swindle. A successful act of swindle often involves some scheme or rigging of the system. Hollywood loves a good swindle — think of all the movies that show a bank robbery or people lying about who they are. Another funny word for swindle is bamboozle. WORD FAMILYswindle: swindled, swindler, swindles, swindling+/swindler: swindlers USAGE EXAMPLESOthers, however, see it as a swindle or deception. The Guardian(Dec 27, 2016) But the mother of all swindle flicks, now and forever, remains “The Sting.” Los Angeles Times(Dec 19, 2016) Mr. Swindle declined to be interviewed for this article. Wall Street Journal(Dec 15, 2016) 1v deprive of by deceit He swindled me out of my inheritance Syn|Hypo|Hyper bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, victimize short, short-change cheat someone by not returning him enough money cheat, chisel, rip off deprive somebody of something by deceit 2n the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme Syn|Hypo|Hyper cheat, rig cozenage, scam a fraudulent business scheme bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, gyp, hustle, stinga swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property pyramidinga fraudulent business practice involving some form of pyramid scheme e.g., the chain of distribution is artificially expanded by an excessive number of distributors selling to other distributors at progressively higher wholesale prices until retail prices are unnecessarily inflated holdoutthe act of hiding playing cards in a gambling game so they are available for personal use later swizBritish slang for a swindle shell game, thimbleriga swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under sting operationa complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals) fraud intentional deception resulting in injury to another person |
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