cheat

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To break the rules in order to gain an unfair advantage.

   He was caught cheating during the final exam.

2. 2
   verb

   To trick or deceive someone, especially to get money from them.

   The salesman cheated her out of hundreds of dollars.

3. 3
   verb

   To be unfaithful to one's husband, wife, or partner.

   She left him after she found out he had cheated on her.

4. 4
   noun

   A person who breaks the rules or deceives others.

   Nobody wants to play cards with a cheat.

Verb from Middle English achetan, variant of escheten, from Old French escheat, past participle of escheoir, escheoiter, from Late Latin *excadēre (“fall away, fall out”), from (Latin) ex- + cadere (“fall”). Displaced native Old English beswīcan. Noun from verb and/or Middle English chete, aphetic form of achete, escheat, eschete (“the reversion of property to the state”), from Anglo-Norman eschete and Old French eschet, escheit, escheoit (“that which falls to one”), past participle of escheoir (“to fall”) (modern French échoir), from Late Latin *excadēre (“fall away, fall out”), from (Latin)…

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