cheating

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.]

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cheater n.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	cheating - a deception for profit to yourself   cheat 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)
Adj.	1.	cheating - not faithful to a spouse or lover; "adulterous husbands and wives"; "a two-timing boyfriend" two-timing, adulterous unfaithful - having sexual relations with someone other than your husband or wife, or your boyfriend or girlfriend; "her husband was unfaithful"
	2.	cheating - violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior" unsporting, unsportsmanlike, foul, dirty unfair, unjust - not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception; "used unfair methods"; "it was an unfair trial"; "took an unfair advantage"

Translations

cheating [ˈtʃiːtɪŋ] N → trampa f; (at cards) → trampas fpl, fullerías fpl
that's cheating → eso es trampa
no cheating! → ¡sin hacer trampas!

cheating [ˈtʃiːtɪŋ] n → tricherie f

cheating

n → Betrügen nt, → Betrug m; (in exam, game etc) → Mogeln m (inf), → Schummeln nt (Sch inf); (in card games also) → Falschspielen nt, → Mogeln nt (inf)

adj → betrügerisch

cheating [ˈtʃiːtɪŋ] n → truffe fpl, imbrogli mpl