swindle

verb

1. (transitive)To defraud.

   “The two men swindled the company out of $160,000.”

   “Such Nations cannot have a King to command them; can only have this or the other scandalous swindling Copper Captain, constitutional Gilt Mountebank, or other the like unsalutary entity by way of King; and the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children in a frightful and tragical manner, little noticed in the Penny Newspapers and Periodical Literatures of this generation.”

   “That word is bezzle. It describes the period in which an embezzler has stolen a man's money but the victim does not yet realize he's been swindled.”

2. (ambitransitive)To obtain (money or property) by fraudulent or deceitful methods.

   “She swindled more than £200 out of me.”

3. For a player in a losing position to play a clever move that provokes an error from the opponent, thus achieving a win or a draw.

noun

1. An instance of swindling.

   “There were men there who had committed merciless robberies, cruel murders, heartless swindles, abominable depravities.”

   “[T]he scandal was the pretty common one of a corrupt agreement between hotel proprietors and a salesman who took and gave secret commissions, so that his business had a monopoly of all the drink sold in the place. It wasn't even an open slavery like an ordinary tied house; it was a swindle at the expense of everybody the manager was supposed to serve.”

2. Anything that is deceptively not what it appears to be.
3. An instance wherein a player in a losing position plays a clever move that provokes an error from the opponent, thus achieving a win or a draw.

name

1. A surname.