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swindle

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swindle(
swihn
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duhl
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A noun is a word referring to a person, animal, place, thing, feeling or idea (e.g. man, dog, house).
noun
1. (fraud)
a. la estafa
(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).
(F)
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.
b. el timo
(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
(M)
It turns out his so-called charity was actually a swindle.Resulta que su dizque organizaci贸n ben茅fica era en realidad un timo.
A transitive verb is a verb that requires a direct object (e.g. I bought a book.).
transitive verb
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.
This refers to an idiomatic word or phrase for which there is no word-for-word translation.
no direct 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.
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swindle
A noun is a word referring to a person, animal, place, thing, feeling or idea (e.g. man, dog, house).
Noun
1. (general)
a. la timo m, estafa
(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).
(F)
A transitive verb is a verb that requires a direct object (e.g. I bought a book.).
transitive verb
2. (general)
a. timar, estafar
to swindle somebody out of somethingestafarle algo a alguien
swindle [ˈswɪndl]
noun
estafa (f); timo (m)
it's a swindle! ¡nos han estafado or timado!
transitive verb
estafar; timar
to swindle sb out of sth estafar algo a algn; quitar algo a algn estafándolo
Collins Complete Spanish Electronic Dictionary 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 2011
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