Money
Synonyms for swindle
The synonym for swindle recorded in this bank is defraud, in the sense "to cheat someone out of money or property through deception". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for swindle
- defraudverb, in the sense "to cheat someone out of money or property through deception"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and swindle carries one sense so far.
to cheat someone out of money or property through deception
The con artist tried to swindle elderly investors out of their retirement savings.
The true synonym
defraud
Same sentence, swapped: The con artist tried to defraud elderly investors out of their retirement savings.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- advise
- solicit
- flatter
Where swindle turns up in the game
swindle is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play swindle
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so swindle reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because money is the company swindle keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. swindle carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.