Swindle

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Adam Cruge

Banned

India & Bengali

I know what "swindle" means. It means: When someone fools you into buying a worthless or inferior or defective item at a high price, you have been swindled.

Example: 1.He swindled elderly women out of their savings.
2.They were swindled out of their season tickets.

What are the meanings of those example sentences?

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Bântuit

Senior Member

Tunisia,Hammamet

Arabic

Hi,

It's an idiom:to swindle out of.

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/swindle+out+of

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Adam Cruge

Banned

India & Bengali

I know it, but could you please tell what the meanings of the two example sentences are?

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mancunienne girl

Senior Member

England

English - England

Bântuit said:

Hi,

It's an idiom:to swindle out of.

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/swindle+out+of

I didn't think the example clarified sufficiently to help a non-native speaker of English. "Swindle" means to cheat someone into buying something or giving up ownership of something, or to get something from someone using dishonest means.....

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Natalisha

Senior Member

Russian

"To swindle something out of a person" is the same as "to swindle a person out of something" and means "to rip a person off", "to cheat".

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sound shift

Senior Member

Derby (central England)

English - England

Adam Cruge said:

I know it, but could you please tell what the meanings of the two example sentences are?

1) He obtained the elderly women's savings through deceit.
2) They were due to receive some season tickets but they were prevented from receiving them by a trick.

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Adam Cruge

Banned

India & Bengali

Thank you very much..I got that.

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