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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



... him, carrying with her a basket of biscuits and other homely things dear to her son's palate. All of which the sheriff speared with knitting-needles, and tried on various domestic animals, to make certain that the Widow Newbolt did not cheat the gallows out of its due by concealing saws in pies, or introducing poison to her hopeless offspring in ...
— The Bondboy • George W. (George Washington) Ogden
... make 'twixt words and lines large gaps, Wide as meridians in maps; To squander paper and spare ink, Or cheat men ...
— A Book About Lawyers • John Cordy Jeaffreson
... but prevented any shallow prating like that to which I listened from this lecturer, it could not be said that it was a gospel from which to derive apostolic authority. There remained morals. I could become an instructor of morality. I could warn tradesmen not to cheat, children to honour their parents, and people generally not to lie. The mission was noble, but I could not feel much enthusiasm for it, and more than this, it was a fact that reformations in morals have never been achieved by mere directions ...
— The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford • Mark Rutherford
... touched Pete deeply, but he had fought his emotion then, too proud to show it. Now he felt a hot something spatter on his hand. His mouth quivered. "Doggone the dog!" he exclaimed. "Doggone the whole doggone outfit!" And to cheat his emotion he began to sing, in a ludicrous, choked way, that ...
— The Ridin' Kid from Powder River • Henry Herbert Knibbs
... is dishonesty that it is no respecter of persons: it will cheat friends as well as foes; and, were ...
— Pearls of Thought • Maturin M. Ballou


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