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Cheat   /tʃit/   Listen
verb
Cheat  v. t.  (past & past part. cheated; pres. part. cheating)  
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."
2.
To beguile. "To cheat winter of its dreariness."
Synonyms: To trick; cozen; gull; chouse; fool; outwit; circumvent; beguile; mislead; dupe; swindle; defraud; overreach; delude; hoodwink; deceive; bamboozle.


Cheat  v. i.  To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards.


noun
Cheat  n.  
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."
2.
One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a cheater. "Airy wonders, which cheats interpret."
3.
(Bot.) A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; called also chess. See Chess.
4.
(Law) 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.
Synonyms: Deception; imposture; fraud; delusion; artifice; trick; swindle; deceit; guile; finesse; stratagem.


Cheat  n.  Wheat, or bread made from wheat. (Obs.) "Their purest cheat, Thrice bolted, kneaded, and subdued in paste."





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"Cheat" Quotes from Famous Books



... if you ain't the cheat, I never! Chargin' money for goobers what's smashed! Think you'll get a lot for yourself, don't you? Well, you won't an' you needn't ...
— A Sunny Little Lass • Evelyn Raymond
... was quivering, and those around began to be interested in the affair, while several in the immediate vicinity gave vent to their indignation that a man should try to cheat a boy out of ten cents by giving him ...
— Toby Tyler • James Otis
... And see their offspring thus degenerate; How we contend for birth and names unknown, And build on their past actions, not our own; They'd cancel records, and their tombs deface, And openly disown the vile degenerate race. For fame of families is all a cheat; 'TIS PERSONAL VIRTUE ONLY MAKES ...
— The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Of York, Mariner, Vol. 1 • Daniel Defoe
... had been a thief, all these odds and ends, instead of raising a smile, would have made one shudder with horror. Judging only from his dress, the observer would have said to himself, "That is a scoundrel; he gambles, he drinks, he is full of vices; but he does not get drunk, he does not cheat, he is neither a thief nor a murderer." And Contenson remained inscrutable till the ...
— Scenes from a Courtesan's Life • Honore de Balzac
... behold your light, your star, Ye would be dupes and victims and ye are. Is it enough? or, must I, while a thrill Lives in your sapient bosoms, cheat you still?" ...
— The Deerslayer • James Fenimore Cooper


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