cheat
Plural: cheats
Noun
- weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
- weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
- someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
- the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- a deception for profit to yourself
- An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
- Someone who cheats.
- The weed cheatgrass.
- A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
- A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.
- A sort of low-quality bread.
Verb
Verb Forms: cheated, cheating, cheats
- To act dishonestly or unfairly to gain an advantage.
- deprive somebody of something by deceit
- "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"
- defeat someone through trickery or deceit
- engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
- be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
- "She cheats on her husband"
- To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
- 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.
- To avoid a seemingly inevitable thing.
- To deceive; to fool; to trick.
- To disregard self-imposed restrictions or commitments in favour of resting or indulging oneself.
Examples
- After he found out his wife cheated, he left her.
- He cheated death when his car collided with a moving train.
- He cheated his way into office.
- I feel as if I've cheated fate.
- My brother flunked biology because he cheated on his mid-term.
- My ex-wife cheated me out of $40,000.
- My husband cheated on me with his secretary.
- You might CHEAT in a game, but Scrabble dictionaries always catch you.
Origin / Etymology
Inherited from Middle English acheten, variant of escheten, from Old French escheoiter, from the noun (see below). Displaced native Old English beswīcan.
Synonyms
bearded darnel, beguiler, betray, Bromus secalinus, cheat on, cheater, cheating, chess, chicane, chisel, chouse, cuckold, darnel, deceiver, jockey, Lolium temulentum, rig, rip off, screw, shaft, slicker, swindle, tare, trickster, wander, BS, I doubt it, belirt, blench, break the rules, bullshit, fraud, imposition, imposture, lirt, step out on, trick
Scrabble Score: 10
cheat: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcheat: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cheat: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary