swindle
/icons/point.icon CHEAT, COZEN, DEFRAUD, SWINDLE mean to get something by dishonesty or deception.
CHEAT suggests using trickery that escapes observation.
e.g. cheated me out of a dollar
COZEN implies artful persuading or flattering to attain a thing or a purpose.
e.g. always able to cozen her grandfather out of a few dollars
DEFRAUD stresses depriving one of his or her rights and usually connotes deliberate perversion of the truth.
e.g. defrauded of her inheritance by an unscrupulous lawyer
SWINDLE implies large-scale cheating by misrepresentation or abuse of confidence.
e.g. swindled of their savings by con artists
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source: Hackers swindle Seven-Eleven smartphone payment service：The Asahi Shimbun
verb with object
use deception to deprive (someone) of money or possessions:
〈人〉をだます
e.g. a businessman swindled investors out of millions of dollars.
obtain (money) fraudulently:
【金などを】〈人〉からだまし取る «out of» ; 【人から】〈金など〉をだまし取る «out of, from»
e.g. he was said to have swindled $62.5 million from the pension fund.
noun
a fraudulent scheme or action:
詐欺, 不正, ぺてん
e.g. he is mixed up in a $10 million insurance swindle.
DERIVATIVES
swindler | ˈswindlər | noun
ORIGIN
late 18th century: back-formation from swindler, from German Schwindler ‘extravagant maker of schemes, swindler’, from schwindeln ‘be giddy’, also ‘tell lies’.