Both Uses
swindle
in
The Nose, by Gogol
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- "I wish—" answered the latter, "I have just been swindled and cheated, and I cannot get hold of the perpetrator.†
swindled = tricked or cheated someone -- usually to get money
- If he was, it would not be such a great swindle!†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(swindle) tricking or cheating someone -- usually to get money
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)