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Cheat

//t͡ʃiːt// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception. countable

    "When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat."

  2. 2
    A sort of low-quality bread. obsolete, uncountable

    "The raueled cheat therfore is generallie ſo made that out of one buſhell of meale, after two and twentie pounds of bran be ſifted and taken from it (wherevnto they ad the gurgeons that riſe from the manchet) they make thirtie cast, euerie lofe weighing eightéene ounces into the ouen and ſixteene ounces out[…]"

  3. 3
    a deception for profit to yourself wordnet
  4. 4
    Someone who cheats. countable

    "And he smote Corinius on his shaven jowl with the dice box, calling him cheat and mangy rascal, whereupon Corinius drew forth a bodkin to smite him in the neck withal; but some went betwixt them, and with much ado and much struggling and cursing they were parted, and it being shown that the dice were not loaded, the son of Corund was fain to make amends to Corinius, and so were they set at one again."

  5. 5
    the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme wordnet
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  1. 6
    The weed cheatgrass. uncountable
  2. 7
    someone who leads you to believe something that is not true wordnet
  3. 8
    A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies. uncountable
  4. 9
    weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat wordnet
  5. 10
    A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code. countable

    "I've had a number of requests for a cheat for Turrican the first. Yes, there is a keypress built in […]"

  6. 11
    weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation. intransitive

    "My brother flunked biology because he cheated on his mid-term."

  2. 2
    defeat someone through trickery or deceit wordnet
  3. 3
    To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner; to commit adultery, or to engage in sexual or romantic conduct with a person other than one's partner in contravention of the rules of society or agreement in the relationship. intransitive

    "My husband cheated on me with his secretary."

  4. 4
    deprive somebody of something by deceit wordnet
  5. 5
    To avoid a seemingly inevitable thing. transitive

    "He cheated death when his car collided with a moving train."

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  1. 6
    engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud wordnet
  2. 7
    To deceive; to fool; to trick. transitive

    "My ex-wife cheated me out of $40,000."

  3. 8
    be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage wordnet
  4. 9
    To disregard self-imposed restrictions or commitments in favour of resting or indulging oneself. informal, intransitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English acheten, variant of escheten, from Old French escheoiter, from the noun (see below). Displaced native Old English beswīcan.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle English chete, an aphetic form of eschete (“the reversion of property to the state”), from Old French eschet, escheit, escheoit (“that which falls to one”), from the past participle of escheoir (“to fall”) (modern French échoir), from Vulgar Latin *excadēre, from Latin ex- + cadere (“fall”).

Etymology 3

Inherited from Middle English chet (“low-quality bread”), of unknown origin; compare manchet.

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