Definition of cheat in English:

cheat

verb tʃiːttʃit

1no object Act dishonestly or unfairly in order to gain an advantage.
she always cheats at cards
Example sentencesExamples
- Administrators may be able to overcome many bad decisions but never dishonesty, cheating or lying.
- It's essentially telling them, either the state is over its head, or it simply is cheating and being dishonest.
- I am aware in New South Wales of many individuals who have been denied practice because they have either cheated on exams, or have committed some act of dishonesty.
- Call it what you like - cheating, gaining an edge, professionalism - the world of football would be far less interesting without this kind of controversy to keep us all engaged.
- Lying, cheating, deception and duplicity only matter when you lose, for the winners rewrite history.
- No matter what the outcome, cheating hurts the cause of school improvement.
- I cheated on his trust and took advantage of his stoical nature.
- At present it is a cheat's charter in which those doing the policing are those who gain most from cheating.
- He says, any way you cut it, I mean anything you ingest in your body that gives you an unfair, competitive edge is cheating.
- People would think twice about cheating if the penalty were imprisonment or a hefty fine.
- And as long as the financial rewards for success are so lucrative there will always be an incentive to cheat in order to gain any advantage.
- That is why when cheating occurs, it is often done through the subtle hinting from city or county leaders.
- Ford, playing a low-life hustler who cheats at cards and dice, has a soft, dark, sensuous look, sensitive rather than intelligent.
- Self-interest is fine, but lying and cheating undermine the capitalism process.
- Will they lie, cheat and steal to gain political power?
- But mostly, it is an attempt to cheat and gain effects by means other than by science.
- So you had these excesses of deception and shenanigans and cheating.
- The athlete cheats and through his dishonesty he wins a gold medal and earns a considerable amount of money.
- He has been painted by the Western press as a drunk, a psychotic, an unreconstructed Stalinist, and a guy who cheats at golf.
- When the other side is dishonest, lying, or cheating or when a problem is impossible to resolve, no amount of negotiation will do you any good.
1. 1.1with object Gain an advantage over or deprive of something by using unfair or deceitful methods; defraud.
  he had cheated her out of everything she had
  Example sentencesExamples
  Credit card fraud costs Irish banks more than €10m each year, while last year fraudsters cheated Britons out of €600m.
  In his role as Consumer Affairs minister, Mr Sutcliffe has to keep up to date with the ever-more ingenious methods criminals employ to cheat and defraud us.
  The private company involved was found to have been cheating consumers by being dishonest in the way it charged for its service.
  A Southend con-man who cheated social security of more than £50,000 in benefits has failed in an Appeal Court bid to have his two-year jail term cut.
  I'm sure I'm not the only one this weekend who feels a little duped, if not cheated, over a failed attempt to buy further tickets for the World Cup in Germany this summer.
  Last year, Madrid police broke up a fraud ring that cheated hundreds of victims out of $35m through sweepstakes.
  Would you cover your face after being cheated or swindled?
  I've met people who have foolishly spent beyond their means and I've also met a good number of people who have been cheated or swindled out of sizeable amounts.
  He cheated and ironically, he also felt cheated.
  I hope nobody feels too cheated that I didn't manage to follow through.
  Don't lump them in with the drug dealers and burglars deliberately cheating the state.
  I've been cheated, conned, hood winked and taken for a ride.
  Counterfeiting and piracy cheats consumers, retailers, manufacturers and the Exchequer, and often funds criminal activity.
  It is blatant deception and will have left a lot of people feeling cheated and angry.
  We both felt cheated having been convinced we deserved more.
  The policies which were put in place left the work force feeling cheated since they had expected to gain control of industry, and there were strikes and unrest in the country.
  As a result, English-speakers say that to defraud, swindle, or cheat someone is to ‘gyp’ them.
  Let's make the case for the private sector, which is being unfairly treated / cheated.
  He pleaded guilty to cheating the public revenue with intent to defraud over a period of almost six years between August 1997 and March 2003.
  The practice becomes illegal when done surreptitiously to cheat the consumer or defraud the taxman.
  Synonyms
  swindle, defraud, deceive, trick, dupe, hoodwink, double-cross, gull
  short-change
  exploit, take advantage of, victimize
  informal do, diddle, rip off, con, bamboozle, rob, fleece, shaft, sting, have, bilk, rook, gyp, finagle, flimflam, put one over on, pull a fast one on, take for a ride, lead up the garden path, sell down the river, pull the wool over someone's eyes
  North American informal sucker, snooker, goldbrick, gouge, stiff, give someone a bum steer
  Australian informal pull a swifty on
  British informal, dated rush
  archaic cozen, chicane, sell
  rare illude, mulct
  deprive of, deny, prevent from gaining, preclude from gaining
  rob of, do out of
2. 1.2informal Be sexually unfaithful.
  I wish someone had told me my partner was cheating on me
  Example sentencesExamples
  The most horrible part of it was, she was cheating on me and we were living together.
  I know my husband is not cheating on me, but I feel as though he wishes he were still running around.
  I had broken up with him about a year before that because he had been cheating on me for nearly a year.
  I asked her if she was seeing someone else, and she denied it at first, but finally admitted to cheating on me.
  He keeps cheating on her and she knows it, but she never leaves him.
  Of course, one of the women was also cheating on her lover with a man, which so infuriated her lover that it resulted in one woman killing the other in a jealous rage.
  Next week, Shandi cheats on her boyfriend again, this time with an Italian dude, and then there is more yelling and crying on the phone with said cheated-on boyfriend.
  You were cheating on her up until two months ago?
  I didn't cheat on anyone, or date someone else to gain what I wanted.
  He decided to speed up the breakup by cheating on me.
  Another guy I know was cheating on his wife, but ultimately broke off the affair and went back to her.
  I don't think I can resist cheating on my boyfriend.
  Last year I discovered that my wife of more than a dozen years had been cheating on me with two different men: one for more than five years, the other for a little over a year.
  He'd been cheating on me with some girl from the Internet as a way of avoiding the fact that we weren't getting along as well as we used to.
  I don't trust my boyfriend, I don't believe a word he says, and I honestly believe he is cheating on me.
  Well, I found out his girlfriend's e-mail address, and under a false name I told her that her boyfriend had been cheating on her with me and a bunch of other girls.
  I loved my husband very much, and I feel I would be cheating on him or tarnishing his memory for his boys if I started dating this soon.
  Sometimes I even feel like I'm cheating on Mike by being in love with Ryan.
  I was going out with this one guy, Alex, and I found out he was cheating on me so I broke up with him over the phone.
  The bottom line is that on some level, I feel like I'm cheating on my husband, but obviously, there's nothing sexual between my friend and me.
  Synonyms
  commit adultery, be unfaithful, stray, be untrue, be inconstant, be false
  informal two-time, play away, play around
2with object Avoid (something undesirable) by luck or skill.
she cheated death in a spectacular crash
Example sentencesExamples
- Twice in the past two years Burns had cheated death.
- Two men cheated death when they were rescued from freezing floodwaters after their dinghy capsized near Selby.
- A mother and her 13-month old baby cheated death by moments thanks to a dramatic rescue from their burning home in Kendal.
- A grandfather who cheated death after suffering horrific burns on holiday has been dubbed a ‘walking miracle’.
- A climber who cheated death near the summit of Everest vows to return to the world's highest peak to finish the conquest.
- A courageous schoolgirl has cheated death, not once but twice.
- But a Yorkshire honeymoon couple yesterday told how they cheated death - because they were too tired to go out after spending the day sightseeing.
- A couple have told how they cheated death when a hurricane struck their hotel during a holiday from hell.
- In February last year when construction work had not long been underway, two builders cheated death when a concrete stairwell collapsed beneath them.
- Nothing makes you feel more alive than thinking you've just cheated death.
- A second Sutton family also cheated death in the natural disaster.
- A motorist who cheated death when his car plunged into icy water has been told to pay a £70 bill for polluting a Yorkshire river.
- A man who cheated death in a blaze at his home today praised firefighters to whom he said he ‘owed his life’.
- A family of five cheated death when a blaze ripped through their loft on Thursday night.
- A terrifying cliff plunge left a group of friends counting their blessings when they cheated death during a drive in Kerry.
- The 86-year-old had already cheated death several times.
- A miracle baby who cheated death after being born four months early is today a ‘happy and healthy’ boy who has just celebrated his first birthday.
- A speeding driver who cheated death in a horrific collision has made a desperate plea for Swindon motorists to slow down.
- At home, the reward of having cheated death is tempered by new concerns.
- A family of five today told how they cheated death when a gas blast ripped through their York home on Christmas Day.
Synonyms
avoid, escape, evade, elude, steer clear of, dodge, duck, miss, sidestep, bypass, skirt, shun, eschew
foil, frustrate, thwart, baulk, defeat

noun tʃiːttʃit

1A person who behaves dishonestly in order to gain an advantage.
Example sentencesExamples
- Athletes who abide by the rules are up against cheats with a distinct advantage.
- A benefits cheat who dishonestly claimed £22,000 while living a life of luxury said today that no amount of money could buy happiness.
- These people are cheats, fraudsters, charlatans and hoaxers.
- The blood tests which snared three drugs cheats at last month's Winter Olympics could be missing from the anti-doping programme throughout Britain this year, including the Commonwealth Games.
- The man who closed the net on drug cheats at the Olympics warns that even tougher action to clean up sport is still to come
- They are all cheats, people say, all swindlers.
- The courteous, honest, plain dealing man in the market will always endure over the cheat and rogue or fraudster.
- Housing benefit cheats on the Yorkshire coast face being pursued by debt collectors and the courts in a new purge on fraud which has already reduced the money owed to hard-pressed local chargepayers by nearly two-thirds.
- An honest person will have friends who value honesty, and a dishonest one will have cheats as friends.
- With time, he becomes more and more impressed with the young woman - at the same time he discovers her artist husband is a liar and a cheat.
- He is a proven liar, a cheat and a chancer, a man so arrogant that he thought he was above the law.
- He's a liar and a cheat, and merely being ‘quite reluctant’ to rely on him is far too weak a response.
- Chrissie paints a picture of Den as a liar and a cheat.
- However, if it leads to increased revenue to be spent on road improvements, motorists can only benefit in the end - and honest motorists will have the satisfaction of knowing they are no longer subsidising as many cheats.
- Last year the district council prosecuted three benefit cheats, resulting in a total award of £9,000, with a further £7,000 in administrative penalties.
- As the trial unfolded, the press split between those who thought her a liar and a cheat, but believed the jury would acquit, and the loyalists.
- I do it in love, and charity, and compassion to your soul: I believe it to be a public duty to warn people against cheats, quacks, and impostors.
- Now testing is the responsibility of the US Anti-Doping Agency, a no-holds-barred body that hunts drugs cheats relentlessly and ruthlessly.
- The referee said I was a liar and a cheat, but my foot was injured at that time.
- All of the medical expertise should be focused on getting tests that are sharp enough to catch even the most expert of cheats.
Synonyms
swindler, cheater, fraudster, trickster, confidence trickster, deceiver, hoaxer, hoodwinker, double-dealer, double-crosser, sham, fraud, fake, crook, rogue, charlatan, quack, mountebank, racketeer
informal conman, con artist, shark, sharper, phoney, hustler, flimflammer, flimflam man
British informal twister
North American informal grifter, bunco artist, gold brick, chiseller
Australian informal shicer, magsman, illywhacker
South African informal schlenter
dated confidence man, confidence woman
rare defalcator, tregetour
1. 1.1 An act of cheating; a fraud or deception.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The film has three slackers riding their way through college on scams, cheats and underhanded stunts.
  The label could be a fake, a counterfeit, a cheat.
  And if the climactic surprise feels like a magician's cheat, at least we've been hoodwinked by a master.
  Only at the end, when the director employs a cheat to offer one final plot twist, do things start to unravel.
  Of course we all want to be able to detect the lie, the cheat, the swindle, the manipulation.
  It is a sales gimmick, a cheat, a swindle, a scam.
  It's a bit of a cheat pretending that a town with a population of eleven thousand is a village, but in comparison to neighbouring Watford the place is positively rural.
  The number of fare cheats has now been reduced to about 1,500 a day.
  Has it been proved to you that there was a cheat on the Revenue, a conspiracy?
  Some casinos subscribe to the agency, which protects casinos from cheats and scams.
  Corny story cheats become believable, and meaningful, because the whole story works this way.
  Synonyms
  swindle, fraud, deception, deceit, hoax, sham, trick, ruse, dodge, stratagem, blind, wile, Trojan horse
  trickery, imposture, artifice, subterfuge
  informal con, leg-pull
2. 1.2mass noun A children's card game, the object of which is to get rid of one's cards while making declarations about them which may or may not be truthful.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Use all of your skill and cunning to beat your opponents in a breathtaking game of Cheat!
  If I play a game of Cheat with my children, I must lie, because that is part of the game.

Origin

Late Middle English: shortening of escheat (the original sense).

This started out as a shortening of escheat, a legal term for the reverting of property to the state when the owner dies without heirs. As an extension of this, the word came to mean ‘to confiscate’, and then ‘to deprive someone of something unfairly’. Finally, the senses ‘to practise deception’ and ‘to try to get an advantage by breaking the rules’ came to the fore.

Rhymes

accrete, autocomplete, beet, bittersweet, bleat, cleat, clubfeet, compete, compleat, complete, conceit, Crete, deceit, delete, deplete, discreet, discrete, eat, effete, élite, entreat, escheat, estreat, excrete, feat, feet, fleet, gîte, greet, heat, leat, leet, Magritte, maltreat, marguerite, meat, meet, meet-and-greet, mesquite, mete, mistreat, neat, outcompete, peat, Pete, petite, pleat, receipt, replete, sangeet, seat, secrete, sheet, skeet, sleet, splay-feet, street, suite, sweet, teat, treat, tweet, wheat

Definition of cheat in US English:

cheat

verbCHēttʃit

1no object Act dishonestly or unfairly in order to gain an advantage, especially in a game or examination.
she always cheats at cards
Example sentencesExamples
- No matter what the outcome, cheating hurts the cause of school improvement.
- Will they lie, cheat and steal to gain political power?
- He has been painted by the Western press as a drunk, a psychotic, an unreconstructed Stalinist, and a guy who cheats at golf.
- When the other side is dishonest, lying, or cheating or when a problem is impossible to resolve, no amount of negotiation will do you any good.
- Administrators may be able to overcome many bad decisions but never dishonesty, cheating or lying.
- At present it is a cheat's charter in which those doing the policing are those who gain most from cheating.
- So you had these excesses of deception and shenanigans and cheating.
- Self-interest is fine, but lying and cheating undermine the capitalism process.
- And as long as the financial rewards for success are so lucrative there will always be an incentive to cheat in order to gain any advantage.
- People would think twice about cheating if the penalty were imprisonment or a hefty fine.
- It's essentially telling them, either the state is over its head, or it simply is cheating and being dishonest.
- That is why when cheating occurs, it is often done through the subtle hinting from city or county leaders.
- I am aware in New South Wales of many individuals who have been denied practice because they have either cheated on exams, or have committed some act of dishonesty.
- Lying, cheating, deception and duplicity only matter when you lose, for the winners rewrite history.
- Call it what you like - cheating, gaining an edge, professionalism - the world of football would be far less interesting without this kind of controversy to keep us all engaged.
- Ford, playing a low-life hustler who cheats at cards and dice, has a soft, dark, sensuous look, sensitive rather than intelligent.
- The athlete cheats and through his dishonesty he wins a gold medal and earns a considerable amount of money.
- I cheated on his trust and took advantage of his stoical nature.
- He says, any way you cut it, I mean anything you ingest in your body that gives you an unfair, competitive edge is cheating.
- But mostly, it is an attempt to cheat and gain effects by means other than by science.
1. 1.1with object Deceive or trick.
  he had cheated her out of everything she had
  Example sentencesExamples
  As a result, English-speakers say that to defraud, swindle, or cheat someone is to ‘gyp’ them.
  The policies which were put in place left the work force feeling cheated since they had expected to gain control of industry, and there were strikes and unrest in the country.
  Credit card fraud costs Irish banks more than €10m each year, while last year fraudsters cheated Britons out of €600m.
  We both felt cheated having been convinced we deserved more.
  I hope nobody feels too cheated that I didn't manage to follow through.
  Counterfeiting and piracy cheats consumers, retailers, manufacturers and the Exchequer, and often funds criminal activity.
  It is blatant deception and will have left a lot of people feeling cheated and angry.
  I've been cheated, conned, hood winked and taken for a ride.
  A Southend con-man who cheated social security of more than £50,000 in benefits has failed in an Appeal Court bid to have his two-year jail term cut.
  The private company involved was found to have been cheating consumers by being dishonest in the way it charged for its service.
  Last year, Madrid police broke up a fraud ring that cheated hundreds of victims out of $35m through sweepstakes.
  Let's make the case for the private sector, which is being unfairly treated / cheated.
  Would you cover your face after being cheated or swindled?
  In his role as Consumer Affairs minister, Mr Sutcliffe has to keep up to date with the ever-more ingenious methods criminals employ to cheat and defraud us.
  The practice becomes illegal when done surreptitiously to cheat the consumer or defraud the taxman.
  He pleaded guilty to cheating the public revenue with intent to defraud over a period of almost six years between August 1997 and March 2003.
  He cheated and ironically, he also felt cheated.
  I've met people who have foolishly spent beyond their means and I've also met a good number of people who have been cheated or swindled out of sizeable amounts.
  I'm sure I'm not the only one this weekend who feels a little duped, if not cheated, over a failed attempt to buy further tickets for the World Cup in Germany this summer.
  Don't lump them in with the drug dealers and burglars deliberately cheating the state.
  Synonyms
  swindle, defraud, deceive, trick, dupe, hoodwink, double-cross, gull
  deprive of, deny, prevent from gaining, preclude from gaining
2. 1.2informal Be sexually unfaithful.
  I wish someone had told me my partner was cheating on me
  Example sentencesExamples
  You were cheating on her up until two months ago?
  I asked her if she was seeing someone else, and she denied it at first, but finally admitted to cheating on me.
  I don't trust my boyfriend, I don't believe a word he says, and I honestly believe he is cheating on me.
  I loved my husband very much, and I feel I would be cheating on him or tarnishing his memory for his boys if I started dating this soon.
  Last year I discovered that my wife of more than a dozen years had been cheating on me with two different men: one for more than five years, the other for a little over a year.
  I had broken up with him about a year before that because he had been cheating on me for nearly a year.
  Well, I found out his girlfriend's e-mail address, and under a false name I told her that her boyfriend had been cheating on her with me and a bunch of other girls.
  I don't think I can resist cheating on my boyfriend.
  Another guy I know was cheating on his wife, but ultimately broke off the affair and went back to her.
  The bottom line is that on some level, I feel like I'm cheating on my husband, but obviously, there's nothing sexual between my friend and me.
  Of course, one of the women was also cheating on her lover with a man, which so infuriated her lover that it resulted in one woman killing the other in a jealous rage.
  He'd been cheating on me with some girl from the Internet as a way of avoiding the fact that we weren't getting along as well as we used to.
  Next week, Shandi cheats on her boyfriend again, this time with an Italian dude, and then there is more yelling and crying on the phone with said cheated-on boyfriend.
  Sometimes I even feel like I'm cheating on Mike by being in love with Ryan.
  I didn't cheat on anyone, or date someone else to gain what I wanted.
  He decided to speed up the breakup by cheating on me.
  I know my husband is not cheating on me, but I feel as though he wishes he were still running around.
  He keeps cheating on her and she knows it, but she never leaves him.
  The most horrible part of it was, she was cheating on me and we were living together.
  I was going out with this one guy, Alex, and I found out he was cheating on me so I broke up with him over the phone.
  Synonyms
  commit adultery, be unfaithful, stray, be untrue, be inconstant, be false
2with object Avoid (something undesirable) by luck or skill.
she cheated death in a spectacular crash
Example sentencesExamples
- The 86-year-old had already cheated death several times.
- A family of five today told how they cheated death when a gas blast ripped through their York home on Christmas Day.
- At home, the reward of having cheated death is tempered by new concerns.
- A couple have told how they cheated death when a hurricane struck their hotel during a holiday from hell.
- A speeding driver who cheated death in a horrific collision has made a desperate plea for Swindon motorists to slow down.
- A man who cheated death in a blaze at his home today praised firefighters to whom he said he ‘owed his life’.
- A mother and her 13-month old baby cheated death by moments thanks to a dramatic rescue from their burning home in Kendal.
- A motorist who cheated death when his car plunged into icy water has been told to pay a £70 bill for polluting a Yorkshire river.
- A family of five cheated death when a blaze ripped through their loft on Thursday night.
- A grandfather who cheated death after suffering horrific burns on holiday has been dubbed a ‘walking miracle’.
- A climber who cheated death near the summit of Everest vows to return to the world's highest peak to finish the conquest.
- In February last year when construction work had not long been underway, two builders cheated death when a concrete stairwell collapsed beneath them.
- A courageous schoolgirl has cheated death, not once but twice.
- Nothing makes you feel more alive than thinking you've just cheated death.
- But a Yorkshire honeymoon couple yesterday told how they cheated death - because they were too tired to go out after spending the day sightseeing.
- Two men cheated death when they were rescued from freezing floodwaters after their dinghy capsized near Selby.
- A terrifying cliff plunge left a group of friends counting their blessings when they cheated death during a drive in Kerry.
- A miracle baby who cheated death after being born four months early is today a ‘happy and healthy’ boy who has just celebrated his first birthday.
- A second Sutton family also cheated death in the natural disaster.
- Twice in the past two years Burns had cheated death.
Synonyms
avoid, escape, evade, elude, steer clear of, dodge, duck, miss, sidestep, bypass, skirt, shun, eschew
1. 2.1archaic Help (time) pass.
  the tuneless rhyme with which the warder cheats the time

nounCHēttʃit

1A person who behaves dishonestly in order to gain an advantage.
a liar and a cheat
Example sentencesExamples
- An honest person will have friends who value honesty, and a dishonest one will have cheats as friends.
- They are all cheats, people say, all swindlers.
- All of the medical expertise should be focused on getting tests that are sharp enough to catch even the most expert of cheats.
- Now testing is the responsibility of the US Anti-Doping Agency, a no-holds-barred body that hunts drugs cheats relentlessly and ruthlessly.
- As the trial unfolded, the press split between those who thought her a liar and a cheat, but believed the jury would acquit, and the loyalists.
- He is a proven liar, a cheat and a chancer, a man so arrogant that he thought he was above the law.
- The courteous, honest, plain dealing man in the market will always endure over the cheat and rogue or fraudster.
- I do it in love, and charity, and compassion to your soul: I believe it to be a public duty to warn people against cheats, quacks, and impostors.
- However, if it leads to increased revenue to be spent on road improvements, motorists can only benefit in the end - and honest motorists will have the satisfaction of knowing they are no longer subsidising as many cheats.
- Chrissie paints a picture of Den as a liar and a cheat.
- The blood tests which snared three drugs cheats at last month's Winter Olympics could be missing from the anti-doping programme throughout Britain this year, including the Commonwealth Games.
- These people are cheats, fraudsters, charlatans and hoaxers.
- A benefits cheat who dishonestly claimed £22,000 while living a life of luxury said today that no amount of money could buy happiness.
- The referee said I was a liar and a cheat, but my foot was injured at that time.
- Last year the district council prosecuted three benefit cheats, resulting in a total award of £9,000, with a further £7,000 in administrative penalties.
- He's a liar and a cheat, and merely being ‘quite reluctant’ to rely on him is far too weak a response.
- The man who closed the net on drug cheats at the Olympics warns that even tougher action to clean up sport is still to come
- Athletes who abide by the rules are up against cheats with a distinct advantage.
- With time, he becomes more and more impressed with the young woman - at the same time he discovers her artist husband is a liar and a cheat.
- Housing benefit cheats on the Yorkshire coast face being pursued by debt collectors and the courts in a new purge on fraud which has already reduced the money owed to hard-pressed local chargepayers by nearly two-thirds.
Synonyms
swindler, cheater, fraudster, trickster, confidence trickster, deceiver, hoaxer, hoodwinker, double-dealer, double-crosser, sham, fraud, fake, crook, rogue, charlatan, quack, mountebank, racketeer
1. 1.1 An act of cheating; a fraud or deception.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The number of fare cheats has now been reduced to about 1,500 a day.
  Some casinos subscribe to the agency, which protects casinos from cheats and scams.
  Only at the end, when the director employs a cheat to offer one final plot twist, do things start to unravel.
  The film has three slackers riding their way through college on scams, cheats and underhanded stunts.
  And if the climactic surprise feels like a magician's cheat, at least we've been hoodwinked by a master.
  Corny story cheats become believable, and meaningful, because the whole story works this way.
  The label could be a fake, a counterfeit, a cheat.
  It is a sales gimmick, a cheat, a swindle, a scam.
  It's a bit of a cheat pretending that a town with a population of eleven thousand is a village, but in comparison to neighbouring Watford the place is positively rural.
  Has it been proved to you that there was a cheat on the Revenue, a conspiracy?
  Of course we all want to be able to detect the lie, the cheat, the swindle, the manipulation.
  Synonyms
  swindle, fraud, deception, deceit, hoax, sham, trick, ruse, dodge, stratagem, blind, wile, trojan horse

Origin

Late Middle English: shortening of escheat (the original sense).

单词	cheat
释义	Definition of cheat in English: cheat verb tʃiːttʃit 1no object Act dishonestly or unfairly in order to gain an advantage. she always cheats at cards Example sentencesExamples Administrators may be able to overcome many bad decisions but never dishonesty, cheating or lying. It's essentially telling them, either the state is over its head, or it simply is cheating and being dishonest. I am aware in New South Wales of many individuals who have been denied practice because they have either cheated on exams, or have committed some act of dishonesty. Call it what you like - cheating, gaining an edge, professionalism - the world of football would be far less interesting without this kind of controversy to keep us all engaged. Lying, cheating, deception and duplicity only matter when you lose, for the winners rewrite history. No matter what the outcome, cheating hurts the cause of school improvement. I cheated on his trust and took advantage of his stoical nature. At present it is a cheat's charter in which those doing the policing are those who gain most from cheating. He says, any way you cut it, I mean anything you ingest in your body that gives you an unfair, competitive edge is cheating. People would think twice about cheating if the penalty were imprisonment or a hefty fine. And as long as the financial rewards for success are so lucrative there will always be an incentive to cheat in order to gain any advantage. That is why when cheating occurs, it is often done through the subtle hinting from city or county leaders. Ford, playing a low-life hustler who cheats at cards and dice, has a soft, dark, sensuous look, sensitive rather than intelligent. Self-interest is fine, but lying and cheating undermine the capitalism process. Will they lie, cheat and steal to gain political power? But mostly, it is an attempt to cheat and gain effects by means other than by science. So you had these excesses of deception and shenanigans and cheating. The athlete cheats and through his dishonesty he wins a gold medal and earns a considerable amount of money. He has been painted by the Western press as a drunk, a psychotic, an unreconstructed Stalinist, and a guy who cheats at golf. When the other side is dishonest, lying, or cheating or when a problem is impossible to resolve, no amount of negotiation will do you any good. 1.1with object Gain an advantage over or deprive of something by using unfair or deceitful methods; defraud. he had cheated her out of everything she had Example sentencesExamples Credit card fraud costs Irish banks more than €10m each year, while last year fraudsters cheated Britons out of €600m. In his role as Consumer Affairs minister, Mr Sutcliffe has to keep up to date with the ever-more ingenious methods criminals employ to cheat and defraud us. The private company involved was found to have been cheating consumers by being dishonest in the way it charged for its service. A Southend con-man who cheated social security of more than £50,000 in benefits has failed in an Appeal Court bid to have his two-year jail term cut. I'm sure I'm not the only one this weekend who feels a little duped, if not cheated, over a failed attempt to buy further tickets for the World Cup in Germany this summer. Last year, Madrid police broke up a fraud ring that cheated hundreds of victims out of $35m through sweepstakes. Would you cover your face after being cheated or swindled? I've met people who have foolishly spent beyond their means and I've also met a good number of people who have been cheated or swindled out of sizeable amounts. He cheated and ironically, he also felt cheated. I hope nobody feels too cheated that I didn't manage to follow through. Don't lump them in with the drug dealers and burglars deliberately cheating the state. I've been cheated, conned, hood winked and taken for a ride. Counterfeiting and piracy cheats consumers, retailers, manufacturers and the Exchequer, and often funds criminal activity. It is blatant deception and will have left a lot of people feeling cheated and angry. We both felt cheated having been convinced we deserved more. The policies which were put in place left the work force feeling cheated since they had expected to gain control of industry, and there were strikes and unrest in the country. As a result, English-speakers say that to defraud, swindle, or cheat someone is to ‘gyp’ them. Let's make the case for the private sector, which is being unfairly treated / cheated. He pleaded guilty to cheating the public revenue with intent to defraud over a period of almost six years between August 1997 and March 2003. The practice becomes illegal when done surreptitiously to cheat the consumer or defraud the taxman. Synonyms swindle, defraud, deceive, trick, dupe, hoodwink, double-cross, gull short-change exploit, take advantage of, victimize informal do, diddle, rip off, con, bamboozle, rob, fleece, shaft, sting, have, bilk, rook, gyp, finagle, flimflam, put one over on, pull a fast one on, take for a ride, lead up the garden path, sell down the river, pull the wool over someone's eyes North American informal sucker, snooker, goldbrick, gouge, stiff, give someone a bum steer Australian informal pull a swifty on British informal, dated rush archaic cozen, chicane, sell rare illude, mulct deprive of, deny, prevent from gaining, preclude from gaining rob of, do out of 1.2informal Be sexually unfaithful. I wish someone had told me my partner was cheating on me Example sentencesExamples The most horrible part of it was, she was cheating on me and we were living together. I know my husband is not cheating on me, but I feel as though he wishes he were still running around. I had broken up with him about a year before that because he had been cheating on me for nearly a year. I asked her if she was seeing someone else, and she denied it at first, but finally admitted to cheating on me. He keeps cheating on her and she knows it, but she never leaves him. Of course, one of the women was also cheating on her lover with a man, which so infuriated her lover that it resulted in one woman killing the other in a jealous rage. Next week, Shandi cheats on her boyfriend again, this time with an Italian dude, and then there is more yelling and crying on the phone with said cheated-on boyfriend. You were cheating on her up until two months ago? I didn't cheat on anyone, or date someone else to gain what I wanted. He decided to speed up the breakup by cheating on me. Another guy I know was cheating on his wife, but ultimately broke off the affair and went back to her. I don't think I can resist cheating on my boyfriend. Last year I discovered that my wife of more than a dozen years had been cheating on me with two different men: one for more than five years, the other for a little over a year. He'd been cheating on me with some girl from the Internet as a way of avoiding the fact that we weren't getting along as well as we used to. I don't trust my boyfriend, I don't believe a word he says, and I honestly believe he is cheating on me. Well, I found out his girlfriend's e-mail address, and under a false name I told her that her boyfriend had been cheating on her with me and a bunch of other girls. I loved my husband very much, and I feel I would be cheating on him or tarnishing his memory for his boys if I started dating this soon. Sometimes I even feel like I'm cheating on Mike by being in love with Ryan. I was going out with this one guy, Alex, and I found out he was cheating on me so I broke up with him over the phone. The bottom line is that on some level, I feel like I'm cheating on my husband, but obviously, there's nothing sexual between my friend and me. Synonyms commit adultery, be unfaithful, stray, be untrue, be inconstant, be false informal two-time, play away, play around 2with object Avoid (something undesirable) by luck or skill. she cheated death in a spectacular crash Example sentencesExamples Twice in the past two years Burns had cheated death. Two men cheated death when they were rescued from freezing floodwaters after their dinghy capsized near Selby. A mother and her 13-month old baby cheated death by moments thanks to a dramatic rescue from their burning home in Kendal. A grandfather who cheated death after suffering horrific burns on holiday has been dubbed a ‘walking miracle’. A climber who cheated death near the summit of Everest vows to return to the world's highest peak to finish the conquest. A courageous schoolgirl has cheated death, not once but twice. But a Yorkshire honeymoon couple yesterday told how they cheated death - because they were too tired to go out after spending the day sightseeing. A couple have told how they cheated death when a hurricane struck their hotel during a holiday from hell. In February last year when construction work had not long been underway, two builders cheated death when a concrete stairwell collapsed beneath them. Nothing makes you feel more alive than thinking you've just cheated death. A second Sutton family also cheated death in the natural disaster. A motorist who cheated death when his car plunged into icy water has been told to pay a £70 bill for polluting a Yorkshire river. A man who cheated death in a blaze at his home today praised firefighters to whom he said he ‘owed his life’. A family of five cheated death when a blaze ripped through their loft on Thursday night. A terrifying cliff plunge left a group of friends counting their blessings when they cheated death during a drive in Kerry. The 86-year-old had already cheated death several times. A miracle baby who cheated death after being born four months early is today a ‘happy and healthy’ boy who has just celebrated his first birthday. A speeding driver who cheated death in a horrific collision has made a desperate plea for Swindon motorists to slow down. At home, the reward of having cheated death is tempered by new concerns. A family of five today told how they cheated death when a gas blast ripped through their York home on Christmas Day. Synonyms avoid, escape, evade, elude, steer clear of, dodge, duck, miss, sidestep, bypass, skirt, shun, eschew foil, frustrate, thwart, baulk, defeat noun tʃiːttʃit 1A person who behaves dishonestly in order to gain an advantage. Example sentencesExamples Athletes who abide by the rules are up against cheats with a distinct advantage. A benefits cheat who dishonestly claimed £22,000 while living a life of luxury said today that no amount of money could buy happiness. These people are cheats, fraudsters, charlatans and hoaxers. The blood tests which snared three drugs cheats at last month's Winter Olympics could be missing from the anti-doping programme throughout Britain this year, including the Commonwealth Games. The man who closed the net on drug cheats at the Olympics warns that even tougher action to clean up sport is still to come They are all cheats, people say, all swindlers. The courteous, honest, plain dealing man in the market will always endure over the cheat and rogue or fraudster. Housing benefit cheats on the Yorkshire coast face being pursued by debt collectors and the courts in a new purge on fraud which has already reduced the money owed to hard-pressed local chargepayers by nearly two-thirds. An honest person will have friends who value honesty, and a dishonest one will have cheats as friends. With time, he becomes more and more impressed with the young woman - at the same time he discovers her artist husband is a liar and a cheat. He is a proven liar, a cheat and a chancer, a man so arrogant that he thought he was above the law. He's a liar and a cheat, and merely being ‘quite reluctant’ to rely on him is far too weak a response. Chrissie paints a picture of Den as a liar and a cheat. However, if it leads to increased revenue to be spent on road improvements, motorists can only benefit in the end - and honest motorists will have the satisfaction of knowing they are no longer subsidising as many cheats. Last year the district council prosecuted three benefit cheats, resulting in a total award of £9,000, with a further £7,000 in administrative penalties. As the trial unfolded, the press split between those who thought her a liar and a cheat, but believed the jury would acquit, and the loyalists. I do it in love, and charity, and compassion to your soul: I believe it to be a public duty to warn people against cheats, quacks, and impostors. Now testing is the responsibility of the US Anti-Doping Agency, a no-holds-barred body that hunts drugs cheats relentlessly and ruthlessly. The referee said I was a liar and a cheat, but my foot was injured at that time. All of the medical expertise should be focused on getting tests that are sharp enough to catch even the most expert of cheats. Synonyms swindler, cheater, fraudster, trickster, confidence trickster, deceiver, hoaxer, hoodwinker, double-dealer, double-crosser, sham, fraud, fake, crook, rogue, charlatan, quack, mountebank, racketeer informal conman, con artist, shark, sharper, phoney, hustler, flimflammer, flimflam man British informal twister North American informal grifter, bunco artist, gold brick, chiseller Australian informal shicer, magsman, illywhacker South African informal schlenter dated confidence man, confidence woman rare defalcator, tregetour 1.1 An act of cheating; a fraud or deception. Example sentencesExamples The film has three slackers riding their way through college on scams, cheats and underhanded stunts. The label could be a fake, a counterfeit, a cheat. And if the climactic surprise feels like a magician's cheat, at least we've been hoodwinked by a master. Only at the end, when the director employs a cheat to offer one final plot twist, do things start to unravel. Of course we all want to be able to detect the lie, the cheat, the swindle, the manipulation. It is a sales gimmick, a cheat, a swindle, a scam. It's a bit of a cheat pretending that a town with a population of eleven thousand is a village, but in comparison to neighbouring Watford the place is positively rural. The number of fare cheats has now been reduced to about 1,500 a day. Has it been proved to you that there was a cheat on the Revenue, a conspiracy? Some casinos subscribe to the agency, which protects casinos from cheats and scams. Corny story cheats become believable, and meaningful, because the whole story works this way. Synonyms swindle, fraud, deception, deceit, hoax, sham, trick, ruse, dodge, stratagem, blind, wile, Trojan horse trickery, imposture, artifice, subterfuge informal con, leg-pull 1.2mass noun A children's card game, the object of which is to get rid of one's cards while making declarations about them which may or may not be truthful. Example sentencesExamples Use all of your skill and cunning to beat your opponents in a breathtaking game of Cheat! If I play a game of Cheat with my children, I must lie, because that is part of the game. Origin Late Middle English: shortening of escheat (the original sense). This started out as a shortening of escheat, a legal term for the reverting of property to the state when the owner dies without heirs. As an extension of this, the word came to mean ‘to confiscate’, and then ‘to deprive someone of something unfairly’. Finally, the senses ‘to practise deception’ and ‘to try to get an advantage by breaking the rules’ came to the fore. Rhymes accrete, autocomplete, beet, bittersweet, bleat, cleat, clubfeet, compete, compleat, complete, conceit, Crete, deceit, delete, deplete, discreet, discrete, eat, effete, élite, entreat, escheat, estreat, excrete, feat, feet, fleet, gîte, greet, heat, leat, leet, Magritte, maltreat, marguerite, meat, meet, meet-and-greet, mesquite, mete, mistreat, neat, outcompete, peat, Pete, petite, pleat, receipt, replete, sangeet, seat, secrete, sheet, skeet, sleet, splay-feet, street, suite, sweet, teat, treat, tweet, wheat Definition of cheat in US English: cheat verbCHēttʃit 1no object Act dishonestly or unfairly in order to gain an advantage, especially in a game or examination. she always cheats at cards Example sentencesExamples No matter what the outcome, cheating hurts the cause of school improvement. Will they lie, cheat and steal to gain political power? He has been painted by the Western press as a drunk, a psychotic, an unreconstructed Stalinist, and a guy who cheats at golf. When the other side is dishonest, lying, or cheating or when a problem is impossible to resolve, no amount of negotiation will do you any good. Administrators may be able to overcome many bad decisions but never dishonesty, cheating or lying. At present it is a cheat's charter in which those doing the policing are those who gain most from cheating. So you had these excesses of deception and shenanigans and cheating. Self-interest is fine, but lying and cheating undermine the capitalism process. And as long as the financial rewards for success are so lucrative there will always be an incentive to cheat in order to gain any advantage. People would think twice about cheating if the penalty were imprisonment or a hefty fine. It's essentially telling them, either the state is over its head, or it simply is cheating and being dishonest. That is why when cheating occurs, it is often done through the subtle hinting from city or county leaders. I am aware in New South Wales of many individuals who have been denied practice because they have either cheated on exams, or have committed some act of dishonesty. Lying, cheating, deception and duplicity only matter when you lose, for the winners rewrite history. Call it what you like - cheating, gaining an edge, professionalism - the world of football would be far less interesting without this kind of controversy to keep us all engaged. Ford, playing a low-life hustler who cheats at cards and dice, has a soft, dark, sensuous look, sensitive rather than intelligent. The athlete cheats and through his dishonesty he wins a gold medal and earns a considerable amount of money. I cheated on his trust and took advantage of his stoical nature. He says, any way you cut it, I mean anything you ingest in your body that gives you an unfair, competitive edge is cheating. But mostly, it is an attempt to cheat and gain effects by means other than by science. 1.1with object Deceive or trick. he had cheated her out of everything she had Example sentencesExamples As a result, English-speakers say that to defraud, swindle, or cheat someone is to ‘gyp’ them. The policies which were put in place left the work force feeling cheated since they had expected to gain control of industry, and there were strikes and unrest in the country. Credit card fraud costs Irish banks more than €10m each year, while last year fraudsters cheated Britons out of €600m. We both felt cheated having been convinced we deserved more. I hope nobody feels too cheated that I didn't manage to follow through. Counterfeiting and piracy cheats consumers, retailers, manufacturers and the Exchequer, and often funds criminal activity. It is blatant deception and will have left a lot of people feeling cheated and angry. I've been cheated, conned, hood winked and taken for a ride. A Southend con-man who cheated social security of more than £50,000 in benefits has failed in an Appeal Court bid to have his two-year jail term cut. The private company involved was found to have been cheating consumers by being dishonest in the way it charged for its service. Last year, Madrid police broke up a fraud ring that cheated hundreds of victims out of $35m through sweepstakes. Let's make the case for the private sector, which is being unfairly treated / cheated. Would you cover your face after being cheated or swindled? In his role as Consumer Affairs minister, Mr Sutcliffe has to keep up to date with the ever-more ingenious methods criminals employ to cheat and defraud us. The practice becomes illegal when done surreptitiously to cheat the consumer or defraud the taxman. He pleaded guilty to cheating the public revenue with intent to defraud over a period of almost six years between August 1997 and March 2003. He cheated and ironically, he also felt cheated. I've met people who have foolishly spent beyond their means and I've also met a good number of people who have been cheated or swindled out of sizeable amounts. I'm sure I'm not the only one this weekend who feels a little duped, if not cheated, over a failed attempt to buy further tickets for the World Cup in Germany this summer. Don't lump them in with the drug dealers and burglars deliberately cheating the state. Synonyms swindle, defraud, deceive, trick, dupe, hoodwink, double-cross, gull deprive of, deny, prevent from gaining, preclude from gaining 1.2informal Be sexually unfaithful. I wish someone had told me my partner was cheating on me Example sentencesExamples You were cheating on her up until two months ago? I asked her if she was seeing someone else, and she denied it at first, but finally admitted to cheating on me. I don't trust my boyfriend, I don't believe a word he says, and I honestly believe he is cheating on me. I loved my husband very much, and I feel I would be cheating on him or tarnishing his memory for his boys if I started dating this soon. Last year I discovered that my wife of more than a dozen years had been cheating on me with two different men: one for more than five years, the other for a little over a year. I had broken up with him about a year before that because he had been cheating on me for nearly a year. Well, I found out his girlfriend's e-mail address, and under a false name I told her that her boyfriend had been cheating on her with me and a bunch of other girls. I don't think I can resist cheating on my boyfriend. Another guy I know was cheating on his wife, but ultimately broke off the affair and went back to her. The bottom line is that on some level, I feel like I'm cheating on my husband, but obviously, there's nothing sexual between my friend and me. Of course, one of the women was also cheating on her lover with a man, which so infuriated her lover that it resulted in one woman killing the other in a jealous rage. He'd been cheating on me with some girl from the Internet as a way of avoiding the fact that we weren't getting along as well as we used to. Next week, Shandi cheats on her boyfriend again, this time with an Italian dude, and then there is more yelling and crying on the phone with said cheated-on boyfriend. Sometimes I even feel like I'm cheating on Mike by being in love with Ryan. I didn't cheat on anyone, or date someone else to gain what I wanted. He decided to speed up the breakup by cheating on me. I know my husband is not cheating on me, but I feel as though he wishes he were still running around. He keeps cheating on her and she knows it, but she never leaves him. The most horrible part of it was, she was cheating on me and we were living together. I was going out with this one guy, Alex, and I found out he was cheating on me so I broke up with him over the phone. Synonyms commit adultery, be unfaithful, stray, be untrue, be inconstant, be false 2with object Avoid (something undesirable) by luck or skill. she cheated death in a spectacular crash Example sentencesExamples The 86-year-old had already cheated death several times. A family of five today told how they cheated death when a gas blast ripped through their York home on Christmas Day. At home, the reward of having cheated death is tempered by new concerns. A couple have told how they cheated death when a hurricane struck their hotel during a holiday from hell. A speeding driver who cheated death in a horrific collision has made a desperate plea for Swindon motorists to slow down. A man who cheated death in a blaze at his home today praised firefighters to whom he said he ‘owed his life’. A mother and her 13-month old baby cheated death by moments thanks to a dramatic rescue from their burning home in Kendal. A motorist who cheated death when his car plunged into icy water has been told to pay a £70 bill for polluting a Yorkshire river. A family of five cheated death when a blaze ripped through their loft on Thursday night. A grandfather who cheated death after suffering horrific burns on holiday has been dubbed a ‘walking miracle’. A climber who cheated death near the summit of Everest vows to return to the world's highest peak to finish the conquest. In February last year when construction work had not long been underway, two builders cheated death when a concrete stairwell collapsed beneath them. A courageous schoolgirl has cheated death, not once but twice. Nothing makes you feel more alive than thinking you've just cheated death. But a Yorkshire honeymoon couple yesterday told how they cheated death - because they were too tired to go out after spending the day sightseeing. Two men cheated death when they were rescued from freezing floodwaters after their dinghy capsized near Selby. A terrifying cliff plunge left a group of friends counting their blessings when they cheated death during a drive in Kerry. A miracle baby who cheated death after being born four months early is today a ‘happy and healthy’ boy who has just celebrated his first birthday. A second Sutton family also cheated death in the natural disaster. Twice in the past two years Burns had cheated death. Synonyms avoid, escape, evade, elude, steer clear of, dodge, duck, miss, sidestep, bypass, skirt, shun, eschew 2.1archaic Help (time) pass. the tuneless rhyme with which the warder cheats the time nounCHēttʃit 1A person who behaves dishonestly in order to gain an advantage. a liar and a cheat Example sentencesExamples An honest person will have friends who value honesty, and a dishonest one will have cheats as friends. They are all cheats, people say, all swindlers. All of the medical expertise should be focused on getting tests that are sharp enough to catch even the most expert of cheats. Now testing is the responsibility of the US Anti-Doping Agency, a no-holds-barred body that hunts drugs cheats relentlessly and ruthlessly. As the trial unfolded, the press split between those who thought her a liar and a cheat, but believed the jury would acquit, and the loyalists. He is a proven liar, a cheat and a chancer, a man so arrogant that he thought he was above the law. The courteous, honest, plain dealing man in the market will always endure over the cheat and rogue or fraudster. I do it in love, and charity, and compassion to your soul: I believe it to be a public duty to warn people against cheats, quacks, and impostors. However, if it leads to increased revenue to be spent on road improvements, motorists can only benefit in the end - and honest motorists will have the satisfaction of knowing they are no longer subsidising as many cheats. Chrissie paints a picture of Den as a liar and a cheat. The blood tests which snared three drugs cheats at last month's Winter Olympics could be missing from the anti-doping programme throughout Britain this year, including the Commonwealth Games. These people are cheats, fraudsters, charlatans and hoaxers. A benefits cheat who dishonestly claimed £22,000 while living a life of luxury said today that no amount of money could buy happiness. The referee said I was a liar and a cheat, but my foot was injured at that time. Last year the district council prosecuted three benefit cheats, resulting in a total award of £9,000, with a further £7,000 in administrative penalties. He's a liar and a cheat, and merely being ‘quite reluctant’ to rely on him is far too weak a response. The man who closed the net on drug cheats at the Olympics warns that even tougher action to clean up sport is still to come Athletes who abide by the rules are up against cheats with a distinct advantage. With time, he becomes more and more impressed with the young woman - at the same time he discovers her artist husband is a liar and a cheat. Housing benefit cheats on the Yorkshire coast face being pursued by debt collectors and the courts in a new purge on fraud which has already reduced the money owed to hard-pressed local chargepayers by nearly two-thirds. Synonyms swindler, cheater, fraudster, trickster, confidence trickster, deceiver, hoaxer, hoodwinker, double-dealer, double-crosser, sham, fraud, fake, crook, rogue, charlatan, quack, mountebank, racketeer 1.1 An act of cheating; a fraud or deception. Example sentencesExamples The number of fare cheats has now been reduced to about 1,500 a day. Some casinos subscribe to the agency, which protects casinos from cheats and scams. Only at the end, when the director employs a cheat to offer one final plot twist, do things start to unravel. The film has three slackers riding their way through college on scams, cheats and underhanded stunts. And if the climactic surprise feels like a magician's cheat, at least we've been hoodwinked by a master. Corny story cheats become believable, and meaningful, because the whole story works this way. The label could be a fake, a counterfeit, a cheat. It is a sales gimmick, a cheat, a swindle, a scam. It's a bit of a cheat pretending that a town with a population of eleven thousand is a village, but in comparison to neighbouring Watford the place is positively rural. Has it been proved to you that there was a cheat on the Revenue, a conspiracy? Of course we all want to be able to detect the lie, the cheat, the swindle, the manipulation. Synonyms swindle, fraud, deception, deceit, hoax, sham, trick, ruse, dodge, stratagem, blind, wile, trojan horse Origin Late Middle English: shortening of escheat (the original sense).
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