Swindled vs Spindled - What's the difference?
swindled | spindled |
As verbs the difference between swindled and spindled is that swindled is past tense of swindle while spindled is past tense of spindle.
swindled English
Verb
(head)
(swindle)
Anagrams
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swindle English
Verb
( swindl)
To defraud (someone).
- ''The two men swindled the company out of $160,000.
To obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods.
Synonyms
* (to be swindled) be sold a pup
* (to defraud) swizz (informal, mainly British)
Synonyms
* scheme, swizz (informal, mainly British)
Anagrams
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spindled English
Verb
(head)
(spindle)
Anagrams
*
spindle English
Alternative forms
* (dialectal)
Noun
( en noun)
(spinning) A rod used for spinning and then winding natural fibres (especially wool), usually consisting of a shaft and a circular whorl positioned at either the upper or lower end of the shaft when suspended vertically from the forming thread.
A rod which turns, or on which something turns.
- the spindle of a vane
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A rotary axis of a machine tool or power tool.
A worldwide tree of the genus Euonymus , originally used for making the spindles used for spinning wool.
An upright spike for holding paper documents by skewering.
The fusee of a watch.
A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
(geometry) A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
Any marine univalve shell of the genus ; a (spindle stromb).
Any marine gastropod of the genus .
Synonyms
* (a tree from the Euonymus genus) spindle tree
Hypernyms
* (a tree from the Euonymus genus) euonymus
Verb
( spindl)
To make into a long tapered shape.
To impale on a device for holding paper documents.
- Do not fold, spindle or mutilate this document.
Anagrams
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External links
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