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swindle
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of SWINDLE
to rob by the use of trickery or threats <hundreds of people were swindled out of their savings, and all they had to show for it were fake land deeds>
Synonyms beat, bilk, bleed, cheat, chisel, chouse, con, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, do in, euchre, fiddle, flimflam, gaff, gyp, hose [slang], hustle, mulct, nobble [British slang], pluck, ream, rip off, rook, screw, shake down, short, shortchange, skin, skunk, squeeze, stick, stiff, sting, sucker, swindle, thimblerig, victimize
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