different between swindle vs overreach

English

Etymology

Back-formation from swindler, from German Schwindler, from German schwindeln, from Middle High German swindeln, swindelen, from Old High German swintiln, frequentative of the verb swintan; compare Modern German schwindeln, Danish svindel and svindle, Dutch zwindelen and zwendelen, Yiddish ???????? (shvindl), Low German swinneln, Middle English swinden (“to languish, waste away”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sw?nd(?)l/
• Rhymes: -?nd?l

Verb

swindle (third-person singular simple present swindles, present participle swindling, simple past and past participle swindled)

1. (transitive) To defraud.

   The two men swindled the company out of $160,000.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To obtain (money or property) by fraudulent or deceitful methods.

   She swindled more than £200 out of me.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:deceive
• (to be swindled): be sold a pup (idiomatic, British, Australian)
• (to defraud): swizz (informal, mainly British)

Translations

Noun

swindle (plural swindles)

1. An instance of swindling.
2. Anything that is deceptively not what it appears to be.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:deception
• scheme
• swizz (informal, mainly British)

Translations

Anagrams

• Windles, wildens, windles

English

Etymology

The verb is from Middle English overrechen (“to rise above; to extend beyond or over; to encroach; to catch, overtake; to reach; to obtain wrongfully (?); to take up (a book) to revise it”) [and other forms], equivalent to over- +? reach; the noun is derived from the verb or from the phrase to reach over.

Pronunciation

• Verb:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???v???i?t??/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /?o?v?(?)??it??/
  • Rhymes: -i?t?
• Noun:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???v?(?)?i?t??/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /?o?v?(?)??it??/
• Hyphenation: over?reach

Verb

overreach (third-person singular simple present overreaches, present participle overreaching, simple past and past participle overreached)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree. [from 14th c.]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:transcend

   1. (transitive, property law) To defeat or override a person's interest in property; (Britain, specifically) of a holder of the legal title of real property: by mortgaging or selling the legal title to a third party, to cause another person's equitable right in the property to be dissolved and to be replaced by an equitable right in the money received from the third party.
2. (transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To do something beyond an appropriate limit, or beyond one's ability.
3. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive, equestrianism) Of a horse: to strike the heel of a forefoot with the toe of a hindfoot. [from 16th c.]
4. (transitive, intransitive, now rare) To deceive, to swindle.

   Synonyms: cheat, defraud; see also Thesaurus:deceive

   • 1775, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Duenna, II.4:

     Don't you see that, by this step, I overreach him? I shall be entitled to the girl's fortune without settling a ducat on her!
5. (intransitive, nautical) To sail on one tack farther than is necessary.
6. (transitive, archaic) To get the better of, especially by artifice or cunning; to outwit. [from 16th c.]

Conjugation

Derived terms

• overreacher
• overreaching (noun)
• overreachingly

Translations

Noun

overreach (countable and uncountable, plural overreaches)

1. (also figuratively) An act of extending or reaching over, especially if too far or much; overextension.
2. (equestrianism) Of a horse: an act of striking the heel of a forefoot with the toe of a hindfoot; an injury caused by this action.

Derived terms

• overreach boot

Translations

References

Further reading

• overreaching (law) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia