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cheat
/tʃit/
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What does cheat mean?
verb
- To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
- To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner; to commit adultery, or to engage in sexual or romantic conduct with a person other than one's partner in contravention of the rules of society or agreement in the relationship.
- To avoid a seemingly inevitable thing.
More meanings (8)
verb
- To deceive; to fool; to trick.
- (informal) To disregard self-imposed restrictions or commitments in favour of resting or indulging oneself.
noun
- An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
- Someone who cheats.
- The weed cheatgrass.
- Synonym of bullshit (“a card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies”).
- A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.
- (obsolete) A sort of low-quality bread.
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IPA pronunciation
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The man who wishes to cheat the people, must needs found his operations upon some prejudice or belief that already exists.
She had expected it all along, though she had tried for the last half-hour to delude herself and to cheat her fears.
More book examples (3)
To see indigo in a dream, denotes you will deceive friendly persons in order to cheat them out of their be longings.
We should never cheat and insult and banish one another by our meanness, if there were present the kernel of worth and friendliness.
"People cheat me and swindle me very much," said she, "and I find it very annoying to give concerts on my own account."