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–v.i.to play or do business in a way that is not honest; practice deceit; act fraudulently: »
He always cheats at cards if he can get away with it.
–v.t.1. to deceive or trick; swindle; defraud (of or out of): »The peddler cheated the woman out of ten cents.
SYNONYM(S): hoodwink.2. to beguile (boredom, etc.); pass (the time): »the timeless rhyme, with which the warder cheats the time (Scott).
–n.1. a person who is not honest and who does things to deceive or trick others; swindler: »The sly storekeeper was a cheat who added weight to all the vegetables and meat he sold. Corinth…was a city of extortioners and cheats (Frederic Farrar).
SYNONYM(S): deceiver, impostor.2. a fraud; trick or deception. SYNONYM(S): swindle, hoax.3. Law. the obtaining of property from another by deliberate deceit or fraudulent means.4. a coarse grass or weed; chess.5. a card game in which the players try to cheat without being discovered but detect the cheating of the other players.╂[variant of escheat]–cheat´a|ble, adjective.–cheat´er, noun.Synonym Study intransitive verb, transitive verb.1, 2 Cheat, trick mean to gain or seek to gain advantage by underhanded means. Cheat means to do something dishonest or use misrepresentation: »He cheated me by shortchanging me. He cheated to pass the test.
Trick emphasizes using a misleading device to deceive and indirectly get what one wants: »The FBI used fake plans to trick the spy.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
