swindled
swindle
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swindle(
swihn
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duhl
)A noun is a word referring to a person, animal, place, thing, feeling, or idea (e.g., man, dog, house).
1. (fraud)
a. la estafa (F)
(f) means that a noun is feminine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
Lola got caught in a swindle. She bought worthless tickets from a scalper.Lola cayó en una estafa. Compró boletos sin valor de un revendedor.
A transitive verb is a verb that requires a direct object (e.g., I bought a book.).
2. (to defraud)
a. estafar
Police caught a man who swindled old ladies.La policía atrapó a un hombre que estafaba ancianas.
b. timar
A woman at the beach swindled me by selling me a hammock that broke the first time I used it.Una mujer en la playa me timó vendiéndome una hamaca que se rompió la primera vez que la usé.
c. no direct translation
This refers to an idiomatic word or phrase for which there is no word-for-word translation.
Manuel tried to swindle the association out of $100,000 by presenting forged receipts.Manuel trató de quitarle $100,000 a la asociación mediante una estafa con recibos falsificados.
The bank swindled hundreds of customers out of their savings.El banco estafó a cientos de clientes y se quedó con sus ahorros.
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