swindle

Significado (Inglés)

Verb

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

Conceptos

engañar

estafar

estafa

engaño

timar

defraudar

timo

trampear

dar gato por liebre

embaucar

fraude

petardear

enclavar

engatusar

enredo

fraudulento

multar

seducción

tramposo

trapacería

victimizar

trapaza

envolver una cosa

tocomocho

clavar

pegarla de puño

decepción

enrollar

envoltura

envolver

fiasco

trama

trampa

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artificio

chasco

deludir

embuste

Sinónimos

cheat

deceive

defraud

trick

fraud

con

dupe

gyp

hoax

deception

hoodwink

fleece

bilk

embezzle

bamboozle

rook

fool

trickery

cheating

deceit

scam

diddle

bunco

gull

lie

mislead

victimize

do

bluff

rip off

misappropriate

cozen

dupery

corrupt

humbug

hornswoggle

sham

spoof

gip

screw

nobble

outsmart

rig

chisel

embezzlement

double-cross

chicanery

knavery

imposition

hocus-pocus

Traducciones

betrügen

Schwindel

escroquerie

escroquer

truffare

Betrug

truffa

schwindeln

inganno

zwendelen

imbroglio

frauderen

ingannare

frauder

tromper

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈswɪnd(ə)l/

Etimología (Inglés)

Cognado con alemán: schwindeln

Cognado con danés: svindel

Cognado con neerlandés: zwindelen

Cognado con yidis: שווינדל

Cognado con bajo alemán: swinneln

Cognado con inglés medio: swinden

In summary

Back-formation from swindler, from German Schwindler, from German schwindeln, from Middle High German swindeln, swindelen, from Old High German swintilōn, frequentative of the verb swintan, from Proto-West Germanic *swindan (“to diminish”).
See also Modern German schwindeln, Danish svindel and svindle, Dutch zwindelen and zwendelen, Yiddish שווינדל (shvindl), Low German swinneln, Middle English swinden (“to languish, waste away”).