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swindle

 
 
/ˈswɪndl/ verb [T]

Translation

to get money from someone by cheating or deceiving them
dolandırmak
[often passive] She was swindled out of thousands of dollars.1691052
swindle noun [C]
dolandırma
a multi-million-pound swindle
swindler noun [C]
dolandırıcı
(Definition of swindle verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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