cheat 
cheat (c̸hēt)
noun
- the act of deceiving or swindling; deception; fraud
- a person who defrauds, deceives, or tricks others; swindler
- chess
Etymology: ME chete < eschete: see escheat
transitive verb
- to deal with dishonestly for one's own gain; defraud; swindle
- to deceive by trickery; fool; mislead
- to foil or escape by tricks or by good luck to cheat death
- to deprive of or destroy the effect of through error or ignorance using the wrong word cheated him of his legacy
intransitive verb
- to practice fraud or deception
- to behave dishonestly, as at games or on an examination
- ☆ Informal to be sexually unfaithful: often with on
cheat
n.
One who cheats
rogue, cheater, swindler, fraud, quack, charlatan, conniver, confidence man, scammer, chiseler, impostor, masquerader, fake, bluff, deceiver, inveigler, hypocrite, double-dealer, trickster, shyster, mountebank, pettifogger, pretender, knave, cozener, dodger, humbug, crook, defrauder, dissembler, bilk, sharper, shark, wolf in sheep's clothing, enticer, decoy, beguiler, phony*, diddler*, two-timer*, blackleg*, con artist*, con man*, fourflusher*, shill*, sharp*, cardsharp*, flimflammer*, flimflam man*, bunco artist*, grifter*; see also criminal, impostor, quack, rascal.A trick
cheat
v.
cheat, the most general term in this comparison, implies dealing dishonestly or deceptively with someone to obtain some advantage or gain; defraud, chiefly a legal term, stresses the use of deliberate deception in criminally depriving a person of rights or property; swindle stresses the winning of a person's confidence in order to cheat or defraud that person of money; trick implies deluding by means of a ruse, stratagem, etc., but does not always suggest fraudulence or a harmful motive; dupe stresses credulity in the person who is tricked or fooled; hoax implies a trick skillfully carried off simply to demonstrate the gullibility of the victim
Object
- menu: Note: The last two cheats won't appear on the cheat menu.
- code: These are the initial ways to unlock this game's secrets without using cheat codes.
- sheet: Lists a currency converter, currency cheat sheet and a travel expense manager.
- mode: Cheat Mode To activate the cheat mode, first of all pickup the tube of toothpaste.
- revenue: He pleaded guilty to 5 counts of cheating the public revenue.
- death: He can even cheat death, resurrecting Truman's father in an attempt to maintain the fiction.
Converse of object
- unlock: Mos Eisley Cantina also has a store from which to buy extras, characters, gold blocks and unlock cheats.
- activate: When you finish the game this will activate the cheats.
- find: We last found cheats for Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 on 10/02/05.
- detect: This suggests that we have specialized mechanisms for detecting cheats.
- catch: This is in place and allows members of the public to provide information that will help benefit officers catch cheats.
Preposition: at
- menu: Cheat mode Cheats At the main menu, press L, R, L, R, X(2 ), Y(2 ).
Adjective modifier
- ps2: I have PS2 cheats here.If you want cheats for basically any console on the planet then click here.
- hidden: Hidden present Cheats Look on top of the town's Christmas tree to find a hidden present.
Noun used with modifier
- xbox: Xbox cheats, hints and tips from Freeola... of free game cheats for all formats including the Microsoft Xbox.
- fare: Last year Metro reduced the number of journeys by fare cheats by £ 1m.
- bike: Faster street bike acceleration Cheats With any street motorcycle, use weight control and hold back to wheelie.
Used with why or when
- who: Firstly Iâd have thought the chances of getting caught are higher than staying clean and beating a cheat who hasnât been caught.
- when: Actually, I don't think of myself as disabled, I feel like I'm cheating when I'm around other disabled people.
Preposition: for
- game: Download Every Game Cheat on the planet Get cheats for every game ever made!
A man, indeed, is not genteel when he gets drunk; but most vicesmay be committed verygenteelly: a manmay debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cardsgenteelly.
An'now, auld Cloots, I ken ye're thinkan, A certain Bardie's rantin, drinkin, Some luckless hour will send him linkan, To your black pit; But faith! he'll turn a corner jinkan, An'cheat you yet.
Forlorn! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self! Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf.
Honesty was a cheat invented first To bind the hands of bold deserving rogues, That fools and cowards might sit safe in power, And lord it uncontroll'd above their betters.
In football it is widely acknowledged that if both sides agree to cheat, cheating is fair.
Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.
I hope I've done nothing so monosyllabic as to cheat. A spade is never so merelya spade as the word Spade would imply.
A face peered. All the grey night In chaos of vacancy shone; Nought but vast Sorrow was thereö The sweet cheat gone.
To cheat a man isnothing; but the womanmust have fine parts indeed who cheats a woman!
Browse dictionary entries near cheat
- ‹ cheapskate
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- ‹ cheapo
- ‹ cheaply
- ‹ cheapie
- ‹ cheapen
- ‹ cheap shot
- ‹ cheap-jack
- ‹ cheap
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