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cheat
[cheet] 
–verb (used with object)
| 1. | to defraud; swindle: He cheated her out of her inheritance. |
| 2. | to deceive; influence by fraud: He cheated us into believing him a hero. |
| 3. | to elude; deprive of something expected: He cheated the law by suicide. |
–verb (used without object)
| 4. | to practice fraud or deceit: She cheats without regrets. |
| 5. | to violate rules or regulations: He cheats at cards. |
| 6. | to take an examination or test in a dishonest way, as by improper access to answers. |
| 7. | Informal. to be sexually unfaithful (often fol. by on): Her husband knew she had been cheating all along. He cheated on his wife. |
–noun
| 8. | a person who acts dishonestly, deceives, or defrauds: He is a cheat and a liar. |
| 9. | a fraud; swindle; deception: The game was a cheat. |
| 10. | Law. the fraudulent obtaining of another's property by a pretense or trick. |
| 11. | an impostor: The man who passed as an earl was a cheat. |
Origin:
1325–75; ME chet (n.) (aph. for achet, var. of eschet escheat ); cheten to escheat, deriv. of chet (n.)
1325–75; ME chet (n.) (aph. for achet, var. of eschet escheat ); cheten to escheat, deriv. of chet (n.)
Related forms:
cheat⋅a⋅ble, adjective
cheat⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
Synonyms:
1. mislead, dupe, delude; gull, con; hoax, fool. Cheat, deceive, trick, victimize refer to the use of fraud or artifice deliberately to hoodwink or obtain an unfair advantage over someone. Cheat implies conducting matters fraudulently, esp. for profit to oneself: to cheat at cards. Deceive suggests deliberately misleading or deluding, to produce misunderstanding or to prevent someone from knowing the truth: to deceive one's parents. To trick is to deceive by a stratagem, often of a petty, crafty, or dishonorable kind: to trick someone into signing a note. To victimize is to make a victim of; the emotional connotation makes the cheating, deception, or trickery seem particularly dastardly: to victimize a blind man. 8. swindler, trickster, sharper, dodger, charlatan, fraud, fake, phony, mountebank. 9. imposture, artifice, trick, hoax.
1. mislead, dupe, delude; gull, con; hoax, fool. Cheat, deceive, trick, victimize refer to the use of fraud or artifice deliberately to hoodwink or obtain an unfair advantage over someone. Cheat implies conducting matters fraudulently, esp. for profit to oneself: to cheat at cards. Deceive suggests deliberately misleading or deluding, to produce misunderstanding or to prevent someone from knowing the truth: to deceive one's parents. To trick is to deceive by a stratagem, often of a petty, crafty, or dishonorable kind: to trick someone into signing a note. To victimize is to make a victim of; the emotional connotation makes the cheating, deception, or trickery seem particularly dastardly: to victimize a blind man. 8. swindler, trickster, sharper, dodger, charlatan, fraud, fake, phony, mountebank. 9. imposture, artifice, trick, hoax.
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| cheat (chēt) v. cheat·ed, cheat·ing, cheats v. tr.
[Middle English cheten, to confiscate, short for acheten, variant of escheten, from eschete, escheat; see escheat.] cheat'er n. |
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