Synonyms for chisel
verb
To work with a chisel
carve, hew, incise, sculpt; see carve 1, cut 1, form 1.
*To get by imposition
impose upon, defraud, swindle, bilk; see beg 2, cheat, deceive.
See chisel in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
verb
- (Informal)
To get money or something else from by deceitful trickery:
bilk, cheat, cozen, defraud, gull, mulct, rook, swindle, victimize. (Informal) flimflam, take, trim. (Slang) diddle1, do, gyp, stick, sting. See honest
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