Becheat
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 to cheat; cheat out of rare, transitive
"Virgil apart, however, and dull weather apart, I have never been made so fully aware, as during our brief survey of the environs of Rome, how marvellously our northern imaginations are bedazzled and becheated by the poets, and painters, and romancers of Italy; […]"
Example
More examples"Virgil apart, however, and dull weather apart, I have never been made so fully aware, as during our brief survey of the environs of Rome, how marvellously our northern imaginations are bedazzled and becheated by the poets, and painters, and romancers of Italy; […]"
Etymology
From be- + cheat.
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