CHEAT

cheat, cheating

(noun) a deception for profit to yourself

swindle, cheat, rig

(noun) the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; “that book is a fraud”

deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker

(noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

chess, cheat, Bromus secalinus

(noun) weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat

darnel, tare, bearded darnel, cheat, Lolium temulentum

(noun) weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous

cheat, chouse, shaft, screw, chicane, jockey

(verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit

cheat, rip off, chisel

(verb) 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”

cheat, chisel

(verb) engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; “Who’s chiseling on the side?”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

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.

(intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.

(transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.

(transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.

Synonyms

• belirt

• blench

• break the rules

• lirt

Etymology 2

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.

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.

Synonyms

• (card game): bullshit, BS, I doubt it

Anagrams

• 'tache, Tache, Taché, Teach, Tâche, chate, he-cat, tache, teach, theca

Source: Wiktionary

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Cheat, n. Etym: [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.)

Definition: A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; -- called also chess. See Chess.

4. (Law)

Definition: 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, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cheated; p. pr. & vb. n. Cheating.] Etym: [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, v. i.

Definition: To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards.

Cheat, n. Etym: [Perh. from OF. cheté goods, chattels.]

Definition: Wheat, or bread made from wheat. [Obs.] Drayton. Their purest cheat, Thrice bolted, kneaded, and subdued in paste. Chapman.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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