Overview of noun swindle

The noun swindle has 1 sense

• swindle, cheat, rig -- (the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud")

Overview of verb swindle

The verb swindle has 1 sense

• victimize, swindle, 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")