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cheat
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- pronunciation:
- chit
- parts of speech:
- intransitive verb, noun, transitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb, noun), Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| definition 1: |
to do something dishonest for one's own gain; to practice deceit or fraud.
They caught him cheating at cards and demanded he pay a fine and give up his club membership.- synonyms:
- deceive, swindle
- similar words:
- bluff, finagle, overreach
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| definition 2: |
to violate rules in a deceitful way.
They cheated during the test by whispering the answers to each other.He was arrested for cheating on his taxes.- similar words:
- finagle
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| definition 3: |
(informal) to be sexually unfaithful to one's partner (often fol. by "on").
He's been cheating on his wife with a woman from his office.- synonyms:
- two-time
- similar words:
- cuckold, deceive
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| related words: |
humbug, intrigue, quack, rogue, swing |
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| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
one who cheats; swindler; fraud.
Who would do business with him? Everyone knows he's a cheat.- synonyms:
- bilk, diddler, fraud, sharper, sharpie, swindler, trickster
- similar words:
- adventurer, bandit, bluff, chiseler, con man, confidence man, crook, gyp, humbug, knave, rascal, rogue
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| definition 2: |
the act or result of cheating.
Don't bet on that game. It's just a cheat.- synonyms:
- fraud, swindle, trick
- similar words:
- artifice, con, confidence game, deception, gyp, hoax
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| definition 3: |
in law, the act of obtaining someone's property by dishonest or criminal means.
- synonyms:
- larceny, stealing, theft, thievery
- similar words:
- burglary, crime, offense
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| definition 4: |
an annual brome grass, originally native to Europe but now a weed in wheat-growing regions worldwide; chess.
- similar words:
- chess, grass
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| related words: |
chicanery, mountebank, phony |
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
cheats, cheating, cheated |
| definition 1: |
to defraud, often in order to obtain property, money, or influence; swindle.
They cheat their customers by issuing false certificates of authenticity for their so-called gems.Her brother cheated her out of her inheritance.- synonyms:
- bilk, burn, con, cozen, defraud, diddle, fleece, flimflam, gull, gyp, rook, swindle
- similar words:
- beguile, clip, deceive, dupe, finagle, hoodwink, humbug, rip off, rogue, skin, sting, trick
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| definition 2: |
to make the victim of a hoax; trick; fool.
She cheated him into believing she loved him.- synonyms:
- dupe, fool, gull, trick
- similar words:
- bamboozle, bluff, deceive, delude, hoodwink, humbug, mislead, rogue, spoof
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| definition 3: |
to deprive (someone) of something unfairly.
The repressive regime cheated people of their rights and property.- synonyms:
- defraud
- similar words:
- rob
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| definition 4: |
to elude or thwart by trickery or as if by trickery.
Thrill seekers enjoy what they see as cheating death.- synonyms:
- elude, evade
- similar words:
- circumvent, escape, foil, outwit, thwart
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| related words: |
double-cross, fool, scant, short |
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| derivations: |
cheatingly (adv.), cheater (n.) |
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