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cheat
(chēt)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. Sports 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 technique that exploits a flaw or hidden feature in a video game or computer program.
4. Law Fraudulent acquisition of another's property.
5. Botany Any of several species of brome, especially Bromus secalinus, an annual European grass widespread as a weed.
[Middle English cheten, to confiscate, short for acheten, variant of escheten, from eschete, escheat; see escheat.]
cheat′er n.
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cheat
(tʃiːt)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. informal (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. informal 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]
ˈcheatable adj
ˈcheater n
ˈcheatingly adv
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
cheat
(tʃit)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]
cheat′a•ble, adj.
cheat′ing•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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cheat
Past participle: cheated
Gerund: cheating
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| Noun | 1. |  cheat - weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous |
| 2. |  cheat - weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheatbrome, 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 truebluffer, 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 double-crosser, double-dealer, traitor, two-timer, betrayer - a person who says one thing and does another falsifier - someone who falsifies 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" fraud - intentional deception resulting in injury to another person bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, 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-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under | |
| 5. |  cheat - a deception for profit to yourself 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" 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, goldbrick, 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 whipsaw - victimize, especially in gambling or negotiations |
| 2. | cheat - defeat someone through trickery or deceit | |
| 3. | cheat - engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who's chiseling on the side?" job - profit privately from public office and official business shark - play the shark; act with trickery cozen - act with artful deceit crib - use a crib, as in an exam 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?"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" |
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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.
noun deceiver, sharper, cheater, shark, charlatan, trickster, con man (informal), impostor, fraudster, double-crosser (informal), swindler, grifter (slang, chiefly U.S. & Canad.), chiseller (informal) He's nothing but a rotten cheat.
Proverbs
"Cheats never prosper"
"Cheats never prosper"
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
cheat
verb1. To get money or something else from by deceitful trickery:
2. Informal. To be sexually unfaithful to another:
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Translations
podvádětpodvodníkpodvéstpodvod
snydesnydersnyd
pettäähuijarihuijata
varalicavarati
csalmegcsal
halda framhjásvindlsvindlasvindlari
だますまやかす偽る詐欺師騙す
속이다속임수
apgaudinėtiapgaulėapgautiapgavikas
blēdisblēdītieskrāpniekskrāpšanakrāpt
goljufgoljufati
luraskojare
การคดโกงทุจริต
kẻ lừa đảolừa đảo
cheat
[tʃiːt]A. N
1. (= person) → tramposo/a m/f; (at cards) → tramposo/a m/f, fullero/a m/f
B. VT (= swindle) → estafar, timar; (= trick) → engañar
to cheat sb out of sth → estafar algo a algn
to feel cheated → sentirse defraudado
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] → engañar
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
[ˈtʃiːt]Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
cheat
vt → betrügen; authorities also → täuschen; to cheat death → dem Tod von der Schippe springen; to cheat somebody out of something → jdn um etw betrügen; to feel cheated → sich betrogen fühlen
vi → betrügen; (in exam, game etc) → mogeln (inf), → schummeln (Sch inf); (in card games also) → falschspielen, mogeln (inf)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
cheat
[tʃiːt]2. vt → imbrogliare, truffare; (rob) → soffiare, fregare
to cheat sb out of sth → fregare qc a qn
I was cheated out of the job → mi è stato soffiato il lavoro
to cheat sb out of sth → fregare qc a qn
I was cheated out of the job → mi è stato soffiato il lavoro
3. vi (at games) → barare, imbrogliare; (in exam) → copiare
he's been cheating on his wife → ha tradito sua moglie
he's been cheating on his wife → ha tradito sua moglie
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
cheat
(tʃiːt) verb to act dishonestly to gain an advantage. He cheats at cards; He was cheated (out of ten dollars).
noun1. a person who cheats. He only wins because he is a cheat.
2. a dishonest trick.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
cheat
→ غَشَّاش, يَغُشُ podvést, podvodník snyd, snyde betrügen, Betrüger απάτη, εξαπατώ hacer trampa, tramposo huijari, pettää tricher, tricheur varalica, varati truffare, truffatore だます, 詐欺師 속이다, 속임수 bedrieger, valsspelen bedrager, jukse oszukać, oszust aldrabão, impostor, trapacear жульничать, мошенничество lura, skojare การคดโกง, ทุจริต dolandırıcı, dolandırmak kẻ lừa đảo, lừa đảo 欺骗Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009