Textual thesaurus for "swindle"

(noun) rig, cheat

the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

that book is a fraud

(verb) hornswoggle, goldbrick, gip, gyp, bunco, short-change, scam, rook, con, diddle, defraud, mulct, nobble, victimize

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