timar

v.

1 to cheat, to con.

2 to deceive, to fool, to swindle, to trick.

Elsa birló al cajero y robó dinero Elsa tricked the cashier and stole money.

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timar

► verbo transitivo

1 to swindle, cheat, trick

■ le timaron mil euros he was cheated out of a thousand euros

► verbo pronominal timarse

1 familiar to make eyes at each other

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verb

to cheat, con, swindle

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1.

VT to swindle, con *

¡me han timado! — I've been conned! *

le timaron la herencia — they swindled him out of his inheritance

2.

See:

timarse

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verbo transitivo to swindle, cheat

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= cheat (on), trick, dupe, rip off, take in, swindle, shortchange, hoodwink, be had, humbug, con, hoax.

Ex. Students who cheat on literature searching, for instance, will not get the full benefit of the course.

Ex. People will try to trick or deceive systems that support intrinsically social activities.

Ex. He offers an antidote to modern-day jeremiads that criticize easily duped consumers.

Ex. Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called 'bungs' for prime space.

Ex. 'Boy, have you been brainwashed! You've been taken in by the tobacco industry', she said = Ella dijo: "¡Chico, te han lavado el cerebro! la industrial del tabaco te ha timado".

Ex. It is evident that the candidates for everlasting youth will be eternally swindled.

Ex. Banning's decision to hold up Madison and Jefferson as models without discussing in some depth the practical ways in which they politicked shortchanges the reader.

Ex. In turn, a consequential effect is that reference librarians and scholars might end up getting hoodkwinked.

Ex. By the time Americans learned they'd been had, the die was cast -- we were committed to 58,000 dead!.

Ex. More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Ex. A number of victims have contacted police after seeing Masterson's mug shot and recognizing him as the man who conned them.

Ex. He hoaxed the popular media into thinking that he had burnt a million quid for the publicity it would, and has continued to, generate.

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verbo transitivo to swindle, cheat

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= cheat (on), trick, dupe, rip off, take in, swindle, shortchange, hoodwink, be had, humbug, con, hoax.

Ex: Students who cheat on literature searching, for instance, will not get the full benefit of the course.

Ex: People will try to trick or deceive systems that support intrinsically social activities.

Ex: He offers an antidote to modern-day jeremiads that criticize easily duped consumers.

Ex: Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called 'bungs' for prime space.

Ex: 'Boy, have you been brainwashed! You've been taken in by the tobacco industry', she said = Ella dijo: "¡Chico, te han lavado el cerebro! la industrial del tabaco te ha timado".

Ex: It is evident that the candidates for everlasting youth will be eternally swindled.

Ex: Banning's decision to hold up Madison and Jefferson as models without discussing in some depth the practical ways in which they politicked shortchanges the reader.

Ex: In turn, a consequential effect is that reference librarians and scholars might end up getting hoodkwinked.

Ex: By the time Americans learned they'd been had, the die was cast -- we were committed to 58,000 dead!.

Ex: More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Ex: A number of victims have contacted police after seeing Masterson's mug shot and recognizing him as the man who conned them.

Ex: He hoaxed the popular media into thinking that he had burnt a million quid for the publicity it would, and has continued to, generate.

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timar [A1 ]

vt

to swindle, cheat, rip … off (colloq)

■ timarse

v pron

(Esp fam) timarse CON algn (mirar, coquetear) to flirt WITH sb, make eyes AT sb; (tener relaciones) to carry on WITH sb (colloq)

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timar (conjugate timar) verbo transitivo
to swindle, cheat
timar vtr (estafar) to cheat, swindle
familiar rip off: te han timado, you've been swindled o cheated
'timar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
engañar
- estafar
English:
cheat
- chisel
- con
- decoy
- dupe
- fleece
- lead on
- rip off
- swindle
- diddle
- rip

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timar vt

1. [estafar]

timar a alguien to swindle sb;

timar algo a alguien to swindle sb out of sth

2. [engañar] to cheat, to con;

¿cinco mil por eso? ¡te han timado! five thousand for that? you've been done o had!

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timar

v/t cheat

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timar vt

: to swindle, to cheat

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timar vb to swindle / to cheat

me han timado 10.000 pesetas I've been swindled out of 10,000 pesetas