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The Meaning of cheat

  • (n.) An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
  • (n.) One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a cheater.
  • (n.) A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; -- called also chess. See Chess.
  • (n.) The obtaining of property from another by an intentional active distortion of the truth.
  • (n.) To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle.
  • (n.) To beguile.
  • (v. i.) To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards.
  • (n.) Wheat, or bread made from wheat.

Synonyms

cheater , darnel , rig , chess , bearded darnel , deceiver , beguiler , tare , trickster , slicker , swindle , cheating , chess game , charmer , tricker , practical joker , hoaxer , oilskin , prankster , cut-up , trucking rig , outfit , turnout , semi , fishing tackle , getup , carriage , fishing gear , trailer truck , articulated lorry , tackle , fishing rig , tractor trailer , equipage , rigging , rip off , jockey , chisel , chouse , cheat on , shaft , chicane , betray , wander , cuckold , screw , have a go at it , have intercourse , have sex , bed , make love , know , get laid , have it away , bonk , be intimate , love , cavil , drive in , fuck , do it , eff , lie with , make out , sleep together , jazz , sleep with , hump , have it off , get it on , bang , carp , roll in the hay , roll , vagabond , stag , wind , meander , ramble , thread , deceive , range , fail , stray , sell , bewray , snitch , lead astray , roam , shit , give away , grass , shop , cast , divagate , weave , digress , swan , tramp , rove , denounce , drift , tell on , rat , artifice , art , craft , finesse , invention , stratagem , blind , cunning , fraud , machination , subterfuge , device , guile , maneuver , trick , contrivance , dodge , imposture , ruse , wile , victimize , victimise

Antonyms

artlessness , frankness , ingenuousness , openness , sincerity , candor , guilelessness , innocence , simplicity , truth , fairness , honesty

Rhymes

amit , athlete , backseat , beat , beet , bittersweet , bleat , bradstreet , breit , bridgette , browbeat , buckwheat , bufete , cleat , cliett , compete , complete , conceit , concrete , crabmeat , crete , deadbeat , deceit , defeat , delete , deplete , discreet , discrete , downbeat , drumbeat , eat , effete , elite , excrete , feat , feet , fleet , freet , gamete , gleet , greet , grete , heartbeat , heat , incomplete , indiscreet , jobete , keitt , kriete , lalit , lanete , leet , leete , leite , longstreet , margarete , marguerite , marquerite , meat , meet , mesquite , mete , mincemeat , mistreat , murveit , neat , neet , noncompete , obsolete , offbeat , overeat , overheat , parakeet , peat , peet , peete , pete , petite , piet , piette , pleat , puneet , quiett , receipt , repeat , replete , retreat , seat , secrete , sheet , shumeet , skeat , skeet , skeete , sleet , spreadsheet , st , street , suite , sweatt , sweet , swete , teat , teet , threatt , threet , thweatt , treat , tweet , uncomplete , unseat , upbeat , vanvliet , veit , vliet , wheat , worksheet