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Cheat   /tʃit/   Listen
Cheat

verb
(past & past part. cheated; pres. part. cheating)
1.
Deprive somebody of something by deceit.  Synonyms: chisel, rip off.  "This salesman ripped us off!" , "We were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme" , "They chiseled me out of my money"
2.
Defeat someone through trickery or deceit.  Synonyms: chicane, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft.
3.
Engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud.  Synonym: chisel.
4.
Be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage.  Synonyms: betray, cheat on, cuckold, wander.  "Might her husband be wandering?"
noun
1.
Weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous.  Synonyms: bearded darnel, darnel, Lolium temulentum, tare.
2.
Weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat.  Synonyms: Bromus secalinus, chess.
3.
Someone who leads you to believe something that is not true.  Synonyms: beguiler, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster.
4.
The act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme.  Synonyms: rig, swindle.
5.
A deception for profit to yourself.  Synonym: cheating.



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"Cheat" Quotes from Famous Books



... acquired through God revealing it to them, as stated in Rom. 1:19. Since, however, certain philosophers misuse the truth in order to assail the faith, the Apostle says (Col. 2:8): "Beware lest any man cheat you by philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men . . . and not according to Christ": and Dionysius says (Ep. vii ad Polycarp.) of certain philosophers that "they make an unholy use of divine things against that which is divine, and by divine wisdom strive to destroy ...
— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas

... to the Banyansin power in Zanzibar are the Mohammedan Hindis. Really it has been a debateable subject in my mind whether the Hindis are not as wickedly determined to cheat in trade as the Banyans. But, if I have conceded the palm to the latter, it has been done very reluctantly. This tribe of Indians can produce scores of unconscionable rascals where they can show but one honest merchant. One of the honestest among men, white or black, red or ...
— How I Found Livingstone • Sir Henry M. Stanley

... Simon, visibly flattered. "You have, at least, a good memory, queen. But you ought to have paid attention to what I said to you. I am no 'sir,' I am a simple cobbler, and earn my poor bit of bread in the sweat of my brow, while you strut about in your glory and happiness, and cheat God out of daylight. Then I held the hand of your daughter in my fist, and she cried out for fear, merely because a poor fellow ...
— Marie Antoinette And Her Son • Louise Muhlbach

... tendency of the greatest strength and social appeal, tendencies toward a sharing by all of the burdens heretofore borne only by the heads of families. Some way must be devised by which such sharing will not cheat society of any gains to character and to sense of family responsibility which old systems of economic support of children have given the race. Some way must be devised to recognize as economic assets of society the special sacrifice and service of the ...
— The Family and it's Members • Anna Garlin Spencer

... aliment given to the stomach. The longer and more difficult the work of the stomach, the less frequent are its calls. It is a kind of compromise with hunger; the people are able neither to suppress it nor to satisfy it; they endeavor to cheat it. We have also been assured that this weed cannot be eaten alone; it must be mixed with vegetables, since of itself it has no nutritive ...
— Irish Race in the Past and the Present • Aug. J. Thebaud


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