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cheat Definition

• (n) weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
• (n) weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
• (n) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
• (n) the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud"
• (n) a deception for profit to yourself
• (v) deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money"
• (v) defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit
• (v) engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who''s chiseling on the side?"
• (v) be sexually unfaithful to one''s partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?"

cheat Synonyms

• bearded darnel
• beguiler
• betray
• Bromus secalinus
• cheat
• cheat on
• cheater
• cheating
• chess
• chicane
• chisel
• chouse
• cuckold
• darnel
• deceiver
• jockey
• Lolium temulentum
• rig
• rip off
• screw
• shaft
• slicker
• swindle
• tare
• trickster
• wander