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Noun cheat has 5 senses
- darnel, tare, bearded darnel, cheat, Lolium temulentum - weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
--1 is a kind of rye grass, ryegrass
- chess, cheat, Bromus secalinus - weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
--2 is a kind of brome, bromegrass
- deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker - someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
--3 is a kind of wrongdoer, offender
--3 has particulars: | bluffer, four-flusher; swindler, chiseller, chiseler, gouger, scammer, grifter, sharper, sharpie, sharpy; decoy, steerer; dodger, fox, slyboots; double-crosser, double-dealer, two-timer, betrayer, traitor; falsifier; finagler, wangler; forger, counterfeiter; fortune hunter; front man, front, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman; hypocrite, dissembler, phony, phoney, pretender; impersonator, imitator; imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player; liar, prevaricator; misleader; mountebank, charlatan; obscurantist; sandbagger; two-timer; utterer |
- swindle, cheat, rig - the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud"
--4 is a kind of fraud
--4 has particulars: | scam, cozenage; bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam; pyramiding; holdout; swiz; shell game, thimblerig |
- cheat, cheating - a deception for profit to yourself
--5 is a kind of deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation
--5 has particulars: gerrymander
Verb cheat has 4 senses
- cheat, rip off, chisel - 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"
--1 is one way to victimize, victimise
Sample sentences:
They cheat him of all his money
Sam cannot cheat Sue
- cheat, chouse, shaft, screw, chicane, jockey - defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit
--2 is one way to beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- cheat, chisel - engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who's chiseling on the side?"
--3 is one way to deceive, lead on, delude, cozen
Sample sentence:
Sam and Sue cheat
- cheat on, cheat, cuckold, betray, wander - be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?"
--4 is one way to deceive, lead on, delude, cozen
Sample sentence:
Sam cannot cheat Sue
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