cheat
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Synonyms: heat, chest, cheap, chat, chet, cleat, chert, creat, chear, wheat, cheal
Antonyms: heat, chest, cheap, chat, chet, cleat, chert, creat, chear, wheat, cheal
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Verb
- To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
- My brother flunked biology because he cheated on his mid-term.
- 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.
- My husband cheated on me with his secretary.
- After he found out his wife cheated, he left her.
- To avoid a seemingly inevitable thing.
- He cheated death when his car collided with a moving train.
- I feel as if I've cheated fate.
- To deceive; to fool; to trick.
- My ex-wife cheated me out of $40,000.
- He cheated his way into office.
- 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.
Noun
- A sort of low-quality bread.
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