swindle [ˈswɪndl]
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 cay贸 en una estafa. Compr贸 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 polic铆a atrap贸 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 tim贸 vendi茅ndome una hamaca que se rompi贸 la primera vez que la us茅.
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 trat贸 de quitarle $100,000 a la asociaci贸n mediante una estafa con recibos falsificados.
The bank swindled hundreds of customers out of their savings.El banco estaf贸 a cientos de clientes y se qued贸 con sus ahorros.
swindleNountransitive verb
A noun is a word referring to a person, animal, place, thing, feeling or idea (e.g. man, dog, house).
1. (general)
a. la timo m, 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).
A transitive verb is a verb that requires a direct object (e.g. I bought a book.).
2. (general)
a. timar, estafar
to swindle somebody out of somethingestafarle algo a alguien
Copyright 漏 2006 Harrap Publishers Limited
Collins Complete Spanish Electronic Dictionary 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 2011
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