Synonyms of the word

mulct

• n. (law) A fine or penalty, especially a pecuniary one.
• v. To impose such a fine or penalty.
• v. To swindle (someone) out of money.

amercement

• n. A non-statutory monetary penalty or forfeiture.

bunco

• n. (US, slang) A swindle or confidence trick.
• n. A parlour game played in teams with three dice, originating in England but popular among suburban women…
• n. brigand.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, US, slang) To swindle (someone).

cheat

• v. (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
• v. (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
• v. (transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
• v. (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
• v. To beguile.
• n. Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
• n. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition;…
• n. The weed cheatgrass.
• n. A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
• n. (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat…

chisel

• n. Gravel.
• n. (usually in the plural) Coarse flour; bran; the coarser part of bran or flour.
• n. A cutting tool consisting of a slim oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end…
• v. (intransitive) To use a chisel.
• v. (transitive) To work something with a chisel.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To cheat, to get something by cheating.

con

• v. (rare) To study, especially in order to gain knowledge of.
• v. (rare, archaic) To know, understand, acknowledge.
• v. Variant spelling of conn: to conduct the movements of a ship at sea.
• n. A disadvantage of something, especially when contrasted with its advantages (pros).
• n. (computing) A reserved word in MS-DOS applications, likely an abbreviation for console.
• n. (slang) A convicted criminal, a convict.
• n. (slang) A fraud; something carried out with the intention of deceiving, usually for personal, often illegal,…
• v. (transitive, slang) To trick or defraud, usually for personal gain.
• v. (nautical) To give the necessary orders to the helmsman to steer a ship in the required direction through…
• n. (nautical) The navigational direction of a ship.
• n. An organized gathering such as a convention, conference or congress.

defraud

• v. (transitive) To obtain money or property by fraud; to swindle.

diddle

• n. (music) In percussion, two consecutive notes played by the same hand (either RR or LL), similar to the…
• n. (slang, childish) The penis.
• v. (transitive) to cheat; to swindle.
• v. (transitive) to have sex with.
• v. (transitive) to masturbate (especially of women).
• v. (transitive) to waste time.
• v. (intransitive) To totter, like a child learning to walk; to daddle.

fine

• adj. (heading) Of subjective quality.
• adj. (heading) Of objective quality.
• adj. (cricket) Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
• adj. (obsolete) Subtle; thin; tenuous.
• adv. Expression of (typically) reluctant agreement.
• adv. Well, nicely, in a positive way.
• adv. (dated, dialect, colloquial) Finely; elegantly; delicately.
• adv. (pool, billiards) In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to…
• n. Fine champagne; French brandy.
• n. (usually in the plural) Something that is fine; fine particles.
• v. (transitive) To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
• v. (intransitive) To become finer, purer, or cleaner.
• v. To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
• v. To change by fine gradations.
• v. (transitive) To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To become gradually fine; to diminish; to dwindle (with away, down, or off).
• n. A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law.
• v. (transitive) To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
• v. (intransitive) To pay a fine.
• n. (music) The end of a musical composition.
• n. (music) The location in a musical score that indicates the end of the piece, particularly when the piece…
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To finish; to cease.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to cease; to stop.
• n. (obsolete) End; conclusion; termination; extinction.
• n. A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
• n. (Britain, law) A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission…

gip

• v. Alternative form of gyp.
• n. A servant; a gyp.
• v. To take out the entrails of (herrings).

goldbrick

• n. A gold brick, especially one that is fraudulent or nonexistent; (figuratively) a swindle, a con.
• n. (US slang, dated) A shirker or malingerer.
• n. (US slang, dated) A swindler.
• v. (US slang, dated) To shirk or malinger.
• v. (US slang, dated) To swindle.

gyp

• n. (pejorative, sometimes offensive) A cheat or swindle; a rip-off.
• n. Synonym of gypsy (“contra dance step”).
• v. (pejorative, sometimes offensive) To cheat or swindle someone or something inappropriately.
• n. (Cambridge and Durham, England) A college servant.
• n. (Cambridge and Durham, England) The room in which such college servants work.
• n. (Cambridge and Durham, England) A small kitchen for use by college students.
• n. Gypsophila.
• n. Pain or discomfort.

hornswoggle

• v. (transitive) To deceive or trick.

impose

• v. (transitive) To establish or apply by authority.
• v. (intransitive) to be an inconvenience.
• v. to enforce: compel to behave in a certain way.
• v. To practice a trick or deception.
• v. To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
• v. To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; said of columns…

levy

• v. To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
• v. To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
• v. To draft someone into military service.
• v. To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
• v. To wage war.
• v. To raise, as a siege.
• v. (law) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
• n. The act of levying.
• n. The tax, property or people so levied.
• n. (US, obsolete, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia) The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at…

nobble

• v. (Britain, Australia, slang) To injure or obstruct intentionally.
• v. (Britain, slang) To gain influence by corrupt means or intimidation.
• v. (Britain, slang) To steal.

penalty

• n. A legal sentence.
• n. A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
• n. (finance) A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.
• n. (soccer) A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box; a…
• n. (ice hockey) A punishment for an infraction of the rules, often in the form of being removed from play…

rook

• n. A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
• n. A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
• n. (Britain) a type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
• n. A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
• v. (transitive) To cheat or swindle.
• n. (chess) A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally)…
• n. (rare) A castle or other fortification.
• n. (baseball, slang) A rookie.
• n. mist; fog; roke.
• v. (obsolete) To squat; to ruck.
• v. Eye dialect spelling of look.

scam

• n. A fraudulent deal.
• n. Something that is promoted using scams.
• v. (transitive) To defraud or embezzle.

short-change

• v. Alternative form of shortchange.

swindle

• v. (transitive) To defraud (someone).
• v. (intransitive) To obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods.
• n. An instance of swindling.

victimize

• v. To make someone a victim or sacrifice.
• v. To punish someone unjustly.
• v. To swindle or defraud someone.