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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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Cheat
Cheat\, n. [rob. an abbrevation of escheat, lands or tenements that fall to a lord or to the state by forfeiture, or by the death of the tenant without heirs; the meaning being explained by the frauds, real or supposed, that were resorted to in procuring escheats. See Escheat.]1. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture. When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. --Dryden. 2. One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a cheater. Airy wonders, which cheats interpret. --Johnson 3. (Bot.) A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; -- called also chess. See Chess. 4. (Law) The obtaining of property from another by an intentional active distortion of the truth. Note: When cheats are effected by deceitful or illegal symbols or tokens which may affect the public at large and against which common prudence could not have guarded, they are indictable at common law. --Wharton. Syn: Deception; imposture; fraud; delusion; artifice; trick; swindle; deceit; guile; finesse; stratagem.Cheat
Cheat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cheated; p. pr. & vb. n. Cheating.] [See Cheat, n., Escheat.]1. To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle. I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island. --Shak. 2. To beguile. --Sir W. Scott. To cheat winter of its dreariness. --W. Irving. Syn: To trick; cozen; gull; chouse; fool; outwit; circumvent; beguile; mislead; dupe; swindle; defraud; overreach; delude; hoodwink; deceive; bamboozle.Cheat
Cheat\, v. i. To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards.Cheat
Cheat\, n. [Perh. from OF. chet['e] goods, chattels.] Wheat, or bread made from wheat. [Obs.] --Drayton. Their purest cheat, Thrice bolted, kneaded, and subdued in paste. --Chapman.
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Language Translation for : cheat
Spanish:
engañar, estafar, timar,
German:
betrügen,
Japanese:
だます
cheat
c.1375, aphetic of O.Fr. escheat, legal term for revision of property to state when owner dies without heirs, lit. "that which falls to one," pp. of escheoir "befall by chance, happen, devolve," from V.L. *excadere "to fall away," from L. ex- "out" + cadere "to fall" (see case (1)). Meaning evolved through "confiscate" (c.1440) to "deprive unfairly" (1590). To cheat on (someone) "be sexually unfaithful" first recorded 1934.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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