cheat

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.

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

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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

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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

Imperative

cheat

cheat

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Thesaurus

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 double-crosser, double-dealer, traitor, two-timer, 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, 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   cheating dissimulation, deception, dissembling, deceit - the act of deceiving 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, 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 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 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.

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, double-crosser (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

cheat

verb

1. To get money or something else from by deceitful trickery:

bilk, cozen, defraud, gull, mulct, rook, swindle, victimize.

Informal: chisel, flimflam, take, trim.

Slang: diddle, do, gyp, stick, sting.

2. Informal. To be sexually unfaithful to another:

philander, womanize.

Informal: fool around, mess around, play around.

noun

1. An act of cheating:

fraud, swindle, victimization.

Informal: flimflam.

Slang: gyp.

2. A person who cheats:

bilk, cheater, cozener, defrauder, rook, sharper, swindler, trickster, victimizer.

Informal: chiseler, crook, flimflammer.

Slang: diddler, gyp, gypper.

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Translations

خِدْعَه، غِشغشغَشَّاشمُخادِع، غَشّاشيَغُشُ

podvádětpodvodníkpodvéstpodvod

snydesnydersnyd

betrügenBetrügerBetrügerinlinkenBetrug

απάτηεξαπατώ

tramposoengañarestafaestafarhacer trampa

pettäähuijarihuijata

trichertricheurtromperavoirrouler

בגדרימה

varalicavarati

csalmegcsal

halda framhjásvindlsvindlasvindlari

abbindolaretruffatoreimbrogliareimbroglionetruffare

だますまやかす偽る詐欺師騙す

속이다속임수

apgaudinėtiapgaulėapgautiapgavikas

blēdisblēdītieskrāpniekskrāpšanakrāpt

bedriegervalsspelenvreemdgaan

juksebedragerbedragerijuksemakersnyte

oszukaćoszust

aldrabãoimpostortrapacear

обманыватьпровестипроводитьжульничатьмошенничать

goljufgoljufati

luraskojare

การคดโกงทุจริต

dolandırıcıdolandırmadolandırmakhilehile yapmak

kẻ lừa đảolừa đảo

欺骗骗子欺诈

cheat

[tʃiːt]

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) → engañar
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]

vi

[player] → tricher
You're cheating! → Tu triches!

(in exam) → tricher

vt

(= trick) → tromper, duper
to cheat sb out of sth → escroquer qch à qn
to feel cheated → se sentir dupé(e)

(= rob) → escroquer

to cheat death (JOURNALISM) (= narrowly escape) → frôler la mort

n

(= person) → tricheur/euse m/f

(= trick) → duperie f, tromperie f

cheat on

vt fus [+ husband, wife, partner] → tromper

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)

n

(= person) → Betrüger(in) m(f); (in exam, game etc) → Mogler(in) m(f) (inf), → Schummler(in) m(f) (Sch inf); (in card games also) → Falschspieler(in) m(f), → Mogler(in) m(f) (inf)

(= dishonest trick) → Betrug m, → Täuschung f

(Comput, also cheat code) → Cheat m

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]

1. n (deception) → imbroglio, truffa; (person) → imbroglione/a, truffatore/trice

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

3. vi (at games) → barare, imbrogliare; (in exam) → copiare
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). kul يَغُش، يَخْدَع мамя trapacear podvádět betrügen snyde κλέβωengañar, estafar, timar petma تقلب کردن؛ کلاهبرداری کردن huijata tricher לְרָמוֹת कपट करना prevariti, varati csal menipu svindla ingannare, barare だます 속이다 apgau(dinė)ti krāpt; blēdīties menipu bedrog plegen, bedriegensnyte, bedra, svindle, jukseoszukiwać ټګى كول: تېر ايستل، غولول enganar a trişa, a înşela жульничать; обжуливать podvádzať goljufati varati fuska, lura, bedra ทุจริต hile yapmak, aldatmak 欺詐 обманювати, обдурювати دھوکا دینا ، فریب کرنا lừa đảo 欺诈

noun

1. a person who cheats. He only wins because he is a cheat. verneuker مُخادِع، غَشّاش мошеник trapaceiro podvodník der/die Betrüger(in) snyder ζαβολιάρης, απατεώναςtramposo petis متقلب huijari tricheur/-euse רמאי ठग prevara, varalica csaló penipu svindlari imbroglione, baro 詐欺師 사기꾼 apgavikas krāpnieks; blēdis penipu bedriegerbedrager, svindler, juksemakeroszust تقلبکاره batoteiro trişor; escroc жулик podvodník, -čka goljuf prevarant falskspelare, svindlare, bedragare คนโกง hilebaz, dolandırıcı, üç kâğıtçı 騙子 обманщик فریبی ، دغا باز kẻ lừa đảo 骗子

2. a dishonest trick. kullery, bedrog خِدْعَه، غِش измама trapaça podvod der Betrug uærligt trick ζαβολιά, κλέψιμο trampa, estafa pettus فریب؛ حقه huijaus tricherieרמאות धोखा prevara csalás penipuan svindl inganno, imbroglio ごまかし 속임수 apgaulė krāpšana tak jujur bedrogbedrageri, juksoszustwo منافق، بې ايمانه، چلى، بي اعتباره batota escrocherie жульничество podvod goljufija podvala fusk, bedrägeri การหลอกลวง hile, aldatma, dolandırma 欺騙 обман دھوکا ، فریب trò lừa đảo 欺骗

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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

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