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Defenition of the word cheat

    • Defenition of the word cheat

      • To cause someone to believe an untruth; to practice trickery or fraud.
      • A person who acts dishonestly.
      • A dishonest act.
      • To act dishonestly.
      • To be sexually unfaithful to one's spouse or lover.
      • To be not totally honest when playing a game.
      • engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
      • 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"
      • a deception for profit to yourself
      • defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit
      • be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?"
      • weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
      • weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
      • someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
      • the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme: "that book is a fraud"
      • the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud"
      • 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"
      • 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"; "Might her husband be wandering?"
      • the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
      • defeat someone through trickery or deceit
      • deprive somebody of something by deceit
      • be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage

    Synonyms for the word cheat

      • bearded darnel
      • beat
      • betray
      • Bromus secalinus
      • cheat on
      • cheater
      • cheating
      • chess
      • chicane
      • chouse
      • cuckold
      • darnel
      • deceiver
      • jockey
      • Lolium temulentum
      • rip off
      • screw
      • sell short
      • shaft
      • swindle
      • tare
      • trickster
      • wander

    Hyponyms for the word cheat

      • beat
      • beguile
      • betrayer
      • bilk
      • bluffer
      • bunco
      • bunco game
      • bunk
      • bunko
      • bunko game
      • charlatan
      • chiseler
      • chiseller
      • con
      • con game
      • confidence game
      • confidence trick
      • cook
      • counterfeiter
      • cozen
      • cozenage
      • crib
      • decoy
      • defalcator
      • defraud
      • defrauder
      • diddle
      • dissembler
      • dissimulator
      • dodger
      • double-crosser
      • double-dealer
      • embezzler
      • fake
      • faker
      • falsifier
      • falsify
      • figurehead
      • finagler
      • fleece
      • flimflam
      • fool around
      • forger
      • fortune hunter
      • four-flusher
      • fox
      • fraud
      • front
      • front man
      • fudge
      • gazump
      • gerrymander
      • gip
      • goldbrick
      • gouger
      • grifter
      • gyp
      • holdout
      • hoodwink
      • hook
      • hornswoggle
      • hustle
      • hypocrite
      • imitator
      • impersonator
      • imposter
      • impostor
      • job
      • juggle
      • liar
      • manipulate
      • misleader
      • misrepresent
      • mountebank
      • mulct
      • nobble
      • nominal head
      • obscurantist
      • overcharge
      • peculator
      • phoney
      • phony
      • play around
      • pluck
      • plume
      • pretender
      • prevaricator
      • pseud
      • pseudo
      • pyramiding
      • rig
      • rob
      • role player
      • rook
      • sandbagger
      • scam
      • scammer
      • set up
      • sham
      • shammer
      • shark
      • sharper
      • sharpie
      • sharpy
      • shell game
      • short-change
      • slyboots
      • soak
      • steerer
      • sting
      • straw man
      • strawman
      • surcharge
      • swindle
      • swindler
      • swiz
      • thimblerig
      • traitor
      • two-time
      • two-timer
      • utterer
      • victimize
      • wangle
      • wangler
      • welch
      • welsh
      • whipsaw

    Hypernyms for the word cheat

      • beat
      • beat out
      • brome
      • bromegrass
      • cozen
      • crush
      • deceit
      • deceive
      • deception
      • delude
      • dissembling
      • dissimulation
      • fraud
      • lead on
      • offender
      • rye grass
      • ryegrass
      • shell
      • trounce
      • vanquish
      • victimise
      • victimize
      • wrongdoer

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