verb
1. cheat someone by not returning him enough money (Freq. 1)
• Syn: ↑short
• Hypernyms:
↑victimize, ↑swindle, ↑rook, ↑goldbrick, ↑nobble, ↑diddle, ↑bunco, ↑defraud, ↑scam, ↑mulct, ↑gyp, ↑gip, ↑hornswoggle, ↑con
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s somebody
2. deprive of by deceit
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He swindled me out of my inheritance
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She defrauded the customers who trusted her
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the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change
• Syn:
↑victimize, ↑swindle, ↑rook, ↑goldbrick, ↑nobble, ↑diddle, ↑bunco, ↑defraud, ↑scam, ↑mulct, ↑gyp, ↑gip, ↑hornswoggle, ↑con
• Derivationally related forms:
↑con (for: ↑con), ↑gyp (for: ↑gyp), ↑scammer (for: ↑scam), ↑scam (for: ↑scam), ↑defrauder (for: ↑defraud), ↑bunco (for: ↑bunco), ↑swindler (for: ↑swindle), ↑swindle (for: ↑swindle), ↑victimization (for: ↑victimize)
• Hyponyms: ↑short
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s somebody
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Somebody ——s somebody PP
Useful english dictionary. 2012.