0 past simple and past participle of swindle
1 to get money dishonestly from someone by deceiving or cheating them:
They swindled local businesses out of thousands of dollars.
The wealthy banker was ultimately convicted of swindling investors.
He accused the government of swindling taxpayers.
The conman swindled thousands of euros from travellers after spinning them sob stories about his dead wife.
After about three months the business was wound up, the various principals disappeared, and the public had been swindled out of £107,000.
I am a little disappointed to have heard words tonight such as "rubbished", "cheated", "swindled"and"defrauded".
They have been swindled out of their rightful winnings.
He has been swindled out of approximately £100 and an unscrupulous maker has pocketed that sum.
If it is not, we shall consider ourselves swindled out of an explanation to which we feel entitled.
