cheat
(chēt)
[Middle English cheten, to confiscate, short for acheten, variant of escheten, from eschete, escheat; see escheat.]
verb: cheat·ed, cheat·ing, cheats.
transitive verb
- To deceive by trickery; swindle: cheated customers by overcharging them for purchases.
- To deprive by trickery; defraud: cheated them of their land.
- To mislead; fool: illusions that cheat the eye.
- To elude; escape: cheat death.
intransitive verb
- To act dishonestly; practice fraud.
- To violate rules deliberately, as in a game: was accused of cheating at cards.
- Informal To be sexually unfaithful: cheat on a spouse.
- Baseball To position oneself closer to a certain area than is normal or expected: The shortstop cheated toward second base.
noun
- An act of cheating; a fraud or swindle.
- One who cheats; a swindler.
- A computer application, password, or disallowed technique used to advance to a higher skill level in a computer video game.
- Law Fraudulent acquisition of another's property.
- Botany An annual European species of brome grass (Bromus secalinus) widely naturalized in temperate regions.
derivatives
- cheat́er
- noun
