cheat
/tʃˈit/ · 1 syllable
Meaning
verb
- deprive somebody of something by deceit
“The con-man beat me out of $50” - defeat someone through trickery or deceit
- engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
“Who's chiseling on the side?” - be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
“She cheats on her husband”
noun
- weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
- weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
- someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
- the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
“that book is a fraud” - a deception for profit to yourself
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