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cheat (cht)

v. cheat?ed, cheat?ing, cheats

v.tr. 1. To deceive by trickery; swindle: cheated customers

by overcharging them for purchases. 2. To deprive by trickery; defraud: cheated them of their

land. 3. To mislead; fool: illusions that cheat the eye. 4. To elude; escape: cheat death.

v.intr. 1. To act dishonestly; practice fraud. 2. To violate rules deliberately, as in a game: was

accused of cheating at cards. 3. Informal To be sexually unfaithful: cheat on a spouse. 4. Baseball To position oneself closer to a certain area than is normal or expected: The shortstop cheated

toward second base.

n. 1. An act of cheating; a fraud or swindle. 2. One who cheats; a swindler. 3. A computer application, password, or disallowed technique used to advance to a higher skill level in a computer video game. 4. Law Fraudulent acquisition of another's property. 5. Botany An annual European species of brome grass (Bromus secalinus) widely naturalized in temperate regions.

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[Middle English cheten, to confiscate, short for acheten, variant of escheten, from eschete, escheat; see escheat.]

cheater n.

The American Heritage? Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ?2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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cheat (tit)

vb 1. to deceive or practise deceit, esp for one's own gain; trick or swindle (someone) 2. (intr) to obtain unfair advantage by trickery, as in a game of cards 3. (tr) to escape or avoid (something unpleasant) by luck or cunning: to cheat death. 4. (when: intr, usually foll by on) to be sexually unfaithful to (one's wife, husband, or lover)

n 5. a person who cheats 6. a deliberately dishonest transaction, esp for gain; fraud 7. sham 8. (Law) law the obtaining of another's property by fraudulent means 9. (Plants) the usual US name for rye-brome

[C14: short for escheat]

cheatable adj cheater n cheatingly adv

Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged ? HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003



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cheat (tit)

v.t. 1. to defraud; swindle. 2. to deceive; influence by fraud. 3. to elude; escape: to cheat death.

v.i. 4. to practice fraud or deceit. 5. to violate rules or agreements: to cheat at cards. 6. to take an examination in a dishonest way, as by having improper access to answers. 7. to be sexually unfaithful (often fol. by on).

n. 8. a person who cheats; swindler; deceiver; imposter. 9. a fraud, swindle, or deception.

[1325?75; Middle English cheten to escheat, derivative of chet (n.), aph. for achet, variant of eschet escheat]

cheata?ble, adj.

cheating?ly, adv. syn: cheat, deceive, trick, victimize refer to the use of fraud or artifice to obtain an unfair advantage or gain. cheat usu. means to be dishonest in order to make a profit for oneself: to cheat customers by shortchanging them. deceive suggests misleading someone by false words or actions: He deceived his parents about his whereabouts. trick means to mislead by a ruse or stratagem, often of a crafty or dishonorable kind: I was tricked into signing the note. victimize means to make a victim of; it connotes a particularly contemptible act: to victimize a blind person.

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Noun 1. cheat - weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous

bearded darnel, darnel, Lolium temulentum, tare

rye grass, ryegrass - any of several annual or perennial Eurasian grasses

2. cheat - weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat

Bromus secalinus, chess

brome, bromegrass - any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions

3. cheat - someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

beguiler, cheater, deceiver, trickster, slicker

offender, wrongdoer - a person who transgresses moral or civil law

bluffer, four-flusher - a person who tries to bluff other people

chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, grifter, scammer, swindler, gouger - a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud

decoy, steerer - a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot)

dodger, slyboots, fox - a shifty deceptive person



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double-crosser, double-dealer, traitor, twotimer, betrayer - a person who says one thing and does another

defalcator, embezzler, peculator - someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use

falsifier - someone who falsifies

finagler, wangler - a deceiver who uses crafty misleading methods

counterfeiter, forger - someone who makes copies illegally

fortune hunter - a person who seeks wealth through marriage

front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman, figurehead, front - a person used as a cover for some questionable activity

dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender - a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives

imitator, impersonator - someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another

faker, imposter, impostor, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer, pretender, fraud, fake - a person who makes deceitful pretenses

liar, prevaricator - a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly

misleader - someone who leads astray (often deliberately)

charlatan, mountebank - a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes

obscurantist - a person who is deliberately vague

sandbagger - someone who deceives you about his true nature or intent in order to take advantage of you

two-timer - someone who deceives a lover or spouse by carrying on a sexual relationship with somebody else

utterer - someone who circulates forged banknotes or counterfeit coins

4. cheat - the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud"

swindle, rig

cozenage, scam - a fraudulent business scheme

fraud - intentional deception resulting in injury to another person

bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, gyp, hustle, con, sting - a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

pyramiding - a fraudulent business practice involving some form of pyramid scheme e.g., the chain of distribution is artificially expanded by an excessive number of distributors selling to other distributors at progressively higher wholesale prices until retail prices are unnecessarily inflated

holdout - the act of hiding playing cards in a gambling game so they are available for personal use later

swiz - British slang for a swindle

shell game, thimblerig - a swindling sleight-ofhand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under

5. cheat - a deception for profit to yourself

cheating

dissimulation, deception, dissembling, deceit the act of deceiving



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gerrymander - an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)

Verb 1. cheat - deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money"

rip off, chisel

gazump - raise the price of something after agreeing on a lower price

cozen - cheat or trick; "He cozened the money out of the old man"

fleece, gazump, overcharge, plume, rob, soak, surcharge, hook, pluck - rip off; ask an unreasonable price

bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, swindle, short-change, victimize - deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"

bilk - cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money

bunk, beat - avoid paying; "beat the subway fare"

whipsaw - victimize, especially in gambling or negotiations

welch, welsh - cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt

victimise, victimize - make a victim of; "I was victimized by this con-man"

beguile, hoodwink, juggle - influence by slyness

2. cheat - defeat someone through trickery or deceit

chicane, chouse, jockey, shaft, screw

beat, beat out, vanquish, trounce, crush, shell - come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"

3. cheat - engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who's chiseling on the side?"

chisel

job - profit privately from public office and official business

shark - play the shark; act with trickery

rig, set up - arrange the outcome of by means of deceit; "rig an election"

cozen - act with artful deceit

crib - use a crib, as in an exam

cozen, deceive, delude, lead on - be false to; be dishonest with

fudge, fake, falsify, misrepresent, wangle, manipulate, cook - tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"

4. cheat - be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?"

cheat on, cuckold, wander, betray

cozen, deceive, delude, lead on - be false to; be dishonest with



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two-time - carry on a romantic relationship with two people at the same time play around, fool around - commit adultery; "he plays around a lot"

Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. ? 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.

cheat

verb 1. deceive, skin (slang), trick, fool, take in (informal), con (informal), stiff (slang), sting (informal), mislead, rip off (slang), fleece, hoax, defraud, dupe, beguile, gull (archaic), do (informal), swindle, stitch up (slang), victimize, bamboozle (informal), hoodwink, double-cross (informal), diddle (informal), take for a ride (informal), bilk, pull a fast one on (informal), finagle (informal) He cheated an old woman out of her life savings. 2. foil, check, defeat, prevent, frustrate, deprive, baffle, thwart He cheated death when he was rescued from the blazing cottage.

noun deceiver, sharper, cheater, shark, charlatan, trickster, con man (informal), impostor, fraudster, doublecrosser (informal), swindler, grifter (slang, chiefly U.S. & Canad.), chiseller (informal) He's nothing but a rotten cheat. Proverbs "Cheats never prosper"

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language ? Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 ? HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

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Spanish / Espa?ol

cheat [tit]

A. N 1. (= person) tramposo/a m/f; (at cards) tramposo/a m/f, fullero/a m/f 2. (= fraud) estafa f, fraude m; (= trick) trampa f it was a cheat fue una estafa or un timo, hubo trampa

B. VT (= swindle) estafar, timar; (= trick) enga?ar to cheat sb out of sth estafar algo a algn to feel cheated sentirse defraudado C. VI hacer trampa(s); (in exam) copiar cheat on VI + PREP (esp US) [+ person] enga?ar

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 ? William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 ? HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

cheat (tit) verb

to act dishonestly to gain an advantage. He cheats

at cards; He was cheated (out of ten dollars).enga?ar, estafar, timar

noun 1. a person who cheats. He only wins because he is a cheat.tramposo 2. a dishonest trick. trampa, estafa

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary ? 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.

cheat hacer trampa

, tramposo

Multilingual Translator ? HarperCollins Publishers 2009



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A Fox seeing him sitting so long and learning the reason of his doing so, said to him, "You are indeed, sir, sadly deceiving yourself; you are indulging a hope strong enough to cheat you, but which will never reward you with enjoyment.

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Now that the woman was there I was not so much afraid of the dead man, and I remembered, too, that he had been a great cheat; so I thought I would make him cheat for the last time.

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