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Webster 1913 Edition
Cheat
Cheat
,Noun.
[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
4.
(Law)
The obtaining of property from another by an intentional active distortion of the truth.
Syn. – Deception; imposture; fraud; delusion; artifice; trick; swindle; deceit; guile; finesse; stratagem.
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. Shakespeare
2.
To beguile.
Sir W. Scott.
Syn. – To trick; cozen; gull; chouse; fool; outwit; circumvent; beguile; mislead; dupe; swindle; defraud; overreach; delude; hoodwink; deceive; bamboozle.
Cheat
,Verb.
I.
To practice fraud or trickery;
as, to
. cheat
at cardsCheat
,Noun.
[Perh. from OF.
cheté
goods, chattels.] Wheat, or bread made from wheat.
[Obs.]
Drayton.
Their purest
Thrice bolted, kneaded, and subdued in paste.
cheat
,Thrice bolted, kneaded, and subdued in paste.
Chapman.
Webster 1828 Edition
Cheat
CHEAT
, v.t.1.
To deceive and defraud in a bargain; to deceive for the purpose of gain in selling. Its proper application is to commerce, in which a person uses some arts, or misrepresentations, or withholds some facts, by which he deceives the purchaser.2.
To deceive by any artifice, trick or device, with a view to gain an advantage contrary to common honesty; as, to cheat a person at cards.3.
To impose on; to trick. It is followed by of or out of, and colloquially by into, as to cheat a child into a belief that a medicine is palatable.CHEAT
,Noun.
1.
A fraud committed by deception; a trick; imposition; imposture.2.
A person who cheats; one guilty of fraud by deceitful practices.Definition 2024
cheat
cheat
English
Verb
cheat (third-person singular simple present cheats, present participle cheating, simple past and past participle cheated)
- (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
- My brother flunked biology because he cheated on his mid-term.
- (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
- My husband cheated on me with his secretary.
- (transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
- He cheated death when his car collided with a moving train.
- I feel as if I've cheated fate.
- (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
- My ex-wife cheated me out of $40,000.
- He cheated his way into office.
- Shakespeare
- I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island.
- To beguile.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Walter Scott to this entry?)
- Washington Irving
- to cheat winter of its dreariness
Synonyms
Translations
violate rules to gain advantage
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being unfaithful
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manage to avoid something
to deceive
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Noun
cheat (plural cheats)
- Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
- An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
- Dryden
- When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat.
- Dryden
- The weed cheatgrass.
- A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
- (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat code.
Translations
someone who is dishonest or cheats
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card game
unfair advantage in a computer game
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