Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Swindle \Swin"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swindled}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Swindling}.] [See {Swindler}.]
   To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to
   swindle a man out of his property.

         Lammote . . . has swindled one of them out of three
         hundred livres.                          --Carlyle.

Swindle \Swin"dle\, n.
   The act or process of swindling; a cheat.

Source : WordNet®

swindle
     n : the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book
         is a fraud" [syn: {cheat}, {rig}]

swindle
     v : 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" [syn: {victimize}, {rook}, {goldbrick}, {nobble},
          {diddle}, {bunco}, {defraud}, {scam}, {mulct}, {gyp}, {con}]