Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - swindle
Swindle
swindle
v. & n. --v.tr. (often foll. by out of) 1 cheat (a person) of money, possessions, etc. (was swindled out of all his savings). 2 cheat a person of (money etc.) (swindled all his savings out of him). --n. 1 an act of swindling. 2 a person or thing represented as what it is not. 3 a fraudulent scheme. Derivatives swindler n. Etymology: back-form. f. swindler f. G Schwindler extravagant maker of schemes, swindler, f. schwindeln be dizzy
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I. verb (~d; swindling) Etymology: back-formation from ~r, from German Schwindler giddy person, from schwindeln to be dizzy, from Old High German swintilōn, frequentative of swintan to diminish, vanish; akin to Old English swindan to vanish Date: circa 1782 intransitive verb to obtain money or property by fraud or deceit, transitive verb to take money or property from by fraud or deceit, see: cheat ~r noun II. noun Date: 1821 an act or instance of swindling ; fraud ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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