Con artists take advantage of the credulity of inexperienced investors and swindle them out of their money.
Source: tatoeba (2004)
Swindle
//ˈswɪnd(ə)l//
Synonyms for "swindle" (229 found)
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Strong matches (69)
Related words (114)
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Translations
146 translations across 44 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- afsettery verb (to defraud someone)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- φενακίζω verb (to defraud someone)
Arabic
4 entries- جَدَعَ verb (to defraud someone)
- جَدَعَ verb (to obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods)
- غَشَّ verb (to defraud someone)
- غَشَّ verb (to obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- dələduzluq noun (an instance of swindling)
Bulgarian
2 entries- измама noun (an instance of swindling)
- измамвам verb (to defraud someone)
Catalan
4 entries- estafa noun (an instance of swindling)
- engalipar verb (to defraud someone)
- enganyar verb (to defraud someone)
- ensarronar verb (to defraud someone)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 欺騙 /欺骗 verb (to obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 欺詐 /欺诈 noun (an instance of swindling)
- 欺騙 /欺骗 verb (to obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods)
- 詐取 /诈取 verb (to defraud someone)
- 騙取 /骗取 verb (to defraud someone)
Czech
1 entries- švindl noun (an instance of swindling)
Dutch
4 entries- zwendel noun (an instance of swindling)
- frauderen verb (to obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods)
- oplichten verb (to defraud someone)
- zwendelen verb (to defraud someone)
Esperanto
2 entries- trompo noun (an instance of swindling)
- trompi verb (to defraud someone)
Finnish
3 entries- huijaus noun (an instance of swindling)
- huijata verb (to defraud someone)
- huijata verb (to obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods)
French
4 entries- entourloupe noun (an instance of swindling)
- escroquerie noun (an instance of swindling)
- entourlouper verb (to defraud someone)
- entourlouper verb (to obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods)
Galician
1 entries- enfoumar verb (to defraud someone)
German
4 entries- Schwindel noun (an instance of swindling)
- beschwindeln verb (to defraud someone)
- betrügen verb (to defraud someone)
- erschwindeln verb (to defraud someone)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌱𐌹𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍉𐌽 verb (to defraud someone)
Greek
1 entries- απάτη noun (an instance of swindling)
Hebrew
1 entries- הוֹנָה verb (to defraud someone)
Hungarian
4 entries- becsapás noun (an instance of swindling)
- csalás noun (an instance of swindling)
- svindli noun (an instance of swindling)
- szélhámosság noun (an instance of swindling)
Icelandic
4 entries- svik noun (an instance of swindling)
- svindl noun (an instance of swindling)
- svindla verb (to obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods)
- svindla á verb (to defraud someone)
Ido
1 entries- eskrokar verb (to defraud someone)
Indonesian
3 entries- mengecoh verb (to defraud someone)
- menipu verb (to defraud someone)
- menipu verb (to obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods)
Italian
4 entries- frode noun (an instance of swindling)
- imbroglio noun (an instance of swindling)
- raggiro noun (an instance of swindling)
- bidonare verb (to defraud someone)
Japanese
4 entries- 詐欺 noun (an instance of swindling)
- 欺く verb (to defraud someone)
- 騙す verb (to defraud someone)
- 騙る verb (to obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods)
Javanese
1 entries- nyolong verb (to defraud someone)
Kabuverdianu
1 entries- kanbalaxu noun (an instance of swindling)
Latin
1 entries- fraudō verb (to defraud someone)
Malay
3 entries- penipuan noun (an instance of swindling)
- tipu verb (to defraud someone)
- tipu verb (to obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods)
Māori
3 entries- hara taware noun (an instance of swindling)
- muremure verb (to obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods)
- whakateke verb (to defraud someone)
Nepali
1 entries- छक्याउनु verb (to defraud someone)
Norman
3 entries- chiffonnage noun (an instance of swindling)
- frauduler verb (to defraud someone)
- rouôler verb (to defraud someone)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- صاغمق verb (to defraud someone)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Schwindel noun (an instance of swindling)
Polish
2 entries- szwindel noun (an instance of swindling)
- szwindlować verb (to defraud someone)
Portuguese
3 entries- fraude noun (an instance of swindling)
- fraudar verb (to defraud someone)
- trapacear verb (to obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods)
Quechua
1 entries- ch'achuy verb (to defraud someone)
Romanian
1 entries- înșela verb (to defraud someone)
Russian
4 entries- жу́льничество noun (an instance of swindling)
- моше́нничество noun (an instance of swindling)
- обма́н noun (an instance of swindling)
- жу́льничать verb (to defraud someone)
Spanish
4 entries- engañabobos noun (an instance of swindling)
- engañifa noun (an instance of swindling)
- estafa noun (an instance of swindling)
- pufo noun (an instance of swindling)
Swedish
4 entries- bedrägeri noun (an instance of swindling)
- svindel noun (an instance of swindling)
- bedra verb (to defraud someone)
- svindla verb (to defraud someone)
Thai
4 entries- คดโกง verb (to defraud someone)
- คดโกง verb (to obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods)
- โกง verb (to defraud someone)
- โกง verb (to obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods)
Turkish
4 entries- dolandırmak verb (to defraud someone)
- dolandırmak verb (to obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods)
- söğüşlemek verb (to obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods)
- yolmak verb (to obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods)
Vietnamese
3 entries- lừa tiền verb (to obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods)
- lừa đảo verb (to defraud someone)
- lừa đảo verb (to obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods)
Yiddish
3 entries- שווינדל noun (an instance of swindling)
- אָפּנאַרן verb (to defraud someone)
- באַשווינדלען verb (to defraud someone)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Where did you swindle them?
Source: tatoeba (1884134)
Be careful. He's not an easy one to swindle.
Source: tatoeba (2184758)
He determined to swindle his creditors, and for this purpose he paid large cheques to a certain Mr. Cornelius, who is, I imagine, himself under another name.
Source: tatoeba (7483298)
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