If someone swindles a person or an organization, they deceive them in order to get something valuable from them, especially money. A City businessman swindled investors out of millions of pounds Swindle is also a noun. He fled to Switzerland rather than face trial for a tax swindle. to get money from someone by deceiving them = cheat swindle sb out of sth (swindler (18-21 centuries), from schwindler ). a situation in which someone gets money by deceiving someone else
deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"