Definitions for cheat

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Spelling: [cheet]

IPA: /tʃit/

Cheat is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 81 anagrams from letters in cheat (aceht).

Definitions for cheat

noun

1. a person who acts dishonestly, deceives, or defrauds:
2. a fraud; swindle; deception:
3. Law. the fraudulent obtaining of another's property by a pretense or trick.
4. an impostor:

verb (used with object)

1. to defraud; swindle:
2. to deceive; influence by fraud:
3. to elude; deprive of something expected:

verb (used without object)

1. to practice fraud or deceit:
2. to violate rules or regulations:
3. to take an examination or test in a dishonest way, as by improper access to answers.
4. Informal. to be sexually unfaithful (often followed by on):

Origin of cheat

1325-75; Middle English chet (noun) (aphetic for achet, variant of eschet escheat); cheten to escheat, derivative of chet (noun)

Examples for cheat

We thought it no harm to cheat the people of the canteens, for we knew they were doing all they could to cheat us.

A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding.

If a Queen did cheat, her crimes fade into insignificance compared to the extensive philandering engaged in by medieval monarchs.

He was fond of saying indelicate things, and used to cheat at cards.

Clients who are wary of online transactions are liable to see escorts with print ads as less likely to cheat or scam  them.

He so humble, so aged, so loth to take our money—and yet a villain and a cheat.

cheat, in other words—on God, on our fellow man, ultimately, on ourselves.

Vennare adds that cheat days can occasionally do more harm than good.

And if so, is it possible to “cheat” without feeling the effects or seeing them on the scale?

The Bacillus is a cheat; every woman to her lover is the most beautiful!