Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to swindle
Participle: swindled
Gerund: swindling
Indicative
Present
| I | swindle |
| you | swindle |
| he;she;it | swindles |
| we | swindle |
| you | swindle |
| they | swindle |
Perfect
| I | have swindled |
| you | have swindled |
| he;she;it | has swindled |
| we | have swindled |
| you | have swindled |
| they | have swindled |
Past
| I | swindled |
| you | swindled |
| he;she;it | swindled |
| we | swindled |
| you | swindled |
| they | swindled |
Pluperfect
| I | had swindled |
| you | had swindled |
| he;she;it | had swindled |
| we | had swindled |
| you | had swindled |
| they | had swindled |
Future
| I | will swindle |
| you | will swindle |
| he;she;it | will swindle |
| we | will swindle |
| you | will swindle |
| they | will swindle |
Future Perfect
| I | will have swindled |
| you | will have swindled |
| he;she;it | will have swindled |
| we | will have swindled |
| you | will have swindled |
| they | will have swindled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | swindle |
| you | swindle |
| he;she;it | swindle |
| we | swindle |
| you | swindle |
| they | swindle |
Perfect
| I | have swindled |
| you | have swindled |
| he;she;it | have swindled |
| we | have swindled |
| you | have swindled |
| they | have swindled |
Imperfect
| I | swindled |
| you | swindled |
| he;she;it | swindled |
| we | swindled |
| you | swindled |
| they | swindled |
Pluperfect
| I | had swindled |
| you | had swindled |
| he;she;it | had swindled |
| we | had swindled |
| you | had swindled |
| they | had swindled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would swindle |
| you | would swindle |
| he;she;it | would swindle |
| we | would swindle |
| you | would swindle |
| they | would swindle |
Perfect
| I | would have swindled |
| you | would have swindled |
| he;she;it | would have swindled |
| we | would have swindled |
| you | would have swindled |
| they | would have swindled |
Imperative
| you | swindle |
| we | Let's swindle |
| you | swindle |
Verbs conjugated like 'swindle'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'swindle'
dwindle,
shindle,
spindle,
swindge,
swingle,
windle,
dindle,
kindle,
shingle,
sidle,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to take something that does not belong to one
- abduct, abstract, appropriate, bag, bandit, bone, boost, borrow, burglarize, burgle, cheat, chore, convert, cop, cozen, crib, embezzle, filch, fleece, flog, gaffle, half-inch, heist, jack, kidnap, knock off, kype, kyper, liberate, lift, loot, make off with, mill, misappropriate, moonlight requisition, nick, own, peculate, pickpocket, pilfer, pillage, pinch, pirate, plunder, poach, pocket, prig, purloin, raid, ransack, rape, reave, rip, rip off, rob, run off with, snag, snatch, steal, swipe, thieve, walk off with
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 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”).
2. 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”). See: German, old spelling '
schwindeln', Middle High German '
swindeln', German, old spelling '
schwindeln', Dutch '
zwindelen', Low Saxon 'swinneln'.
Verbs referencing "swindle"
German, old spelling
schwinden, Danish
svindle, Dutch
zwendelen.
Sample Sentences
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The two men swindled the company out of $160,000.
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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. [1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XXI. (of XXI.):]
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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. [2015 December 3, Tracy Alloway, “There's Been a Bezzle-Fueled Boom in Bonds”, in Markets, Bloomberg News, retrieved 16 Aug 2021:]
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She swindled more than £200 out of me.