Swindle
Swindle verb - To rob by the use of trickery or threats.
Usage example: hundreds of people were swindled out of their savings, and all they had to show for it were fake land deeds
Trick is a synonym for swindle in cheat topic. In some cases you can use "Trick" instead the word "Swindle" as a noun or a verb, when it comes to topics like defraud, action, prank, deed.
Trick
Trick noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.
Usage example: her husband used every trick in the book to get out of appearing in his parish's fashion show
Swindle is a synonym for trick in activity topic. You can use "Swindle" instead the word "Trick" as a noun or a verb, if it concerns topics such as action, fool, deed, deceive.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| successful | successful swindle | successful trick |
| famous | famous swindle | famous trick |
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- French media has a lot of fun with the fact that their phonetically similar verb tromper means both "trick/swindle" and "cheat on" when referring to The Donald.
Source: Meaningful Name / Real Life -
Someone actually mentions to him how silly it is for people to swindle and trick when better money could be made out of living honestly... he glosses over the point.
Source: Cut Lex Luthor a Check -
Guile Hero: Roper is a gambler who begins to purposefully lose a fight in order to swindle a spectator out of money and is upfront about the fact that he plans to trick Lee into losing money.
Source: Film / Enter the Dragon
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