swin·dle /ˈswɪndḷ/
騙取,欺詐,騙局(vt.)(vi.)騙取,詐取
Swin·dle v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swindled p. pr. & vb. n. Swindling ] To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property.
Lammote . . . has swindled one of them out of three hundred livres. --Carlyle.
Swin·dle, n. The act or process of swindling; a cheat.
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swindle
n : the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book
is a fraud" [syn: cheat, rig]
v : 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" [syn: victimize, rook, goldbrick, nobble,
diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, con]