Dictionary entry details
• CHEAT (noun)
Meaning:
Weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Lolium temulentum; darnel; cheat; bearded darnel; tare
Hypernyms ("cheat" is a kind of...):
rye grass; ryegrass (any of several annual or perennial Eurasian grasses)
Meaning:
Weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Bromus secalinus; chess; cheat
Hypernyms ("cheat" is a kind of...):
brome; bromegrass (any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions)
Meaning:
Someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
deceiver; cheater; beguiler; trickster; cheat; slicker
Hypernyms ("cheat" is a kind of...):
offender; wrongdoer (a person who transgresses moral or civil law)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cheat"):
imitator; impersonator (someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another)
fake; faker; fraud; imposter; impostor; pretender; pseud; pseudo; role player; sham; shammer (a person who makes deceitful pretenses)
liar; prevaricator (a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly)
misleader (someone who leads astray (often deliberately))
charlatan; mountebank (a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes)
obscurantist (a person who is deliberately vague)
sandbagger (someone who deceives you about his true nature or intent in order to take advantage of you)
two-timer (someone who deceives a lover or spouse by carrying on a sexual relationship with somebody else)
utterer (someone who circulates forged banknotes or counterfeit coins)
dissembler; dissimulator; hypocrite; phoney; phony; pretender (a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives)
figurehead; front; front man; nominal head; straw man; strawman (a person used as a cover for some questionable activity)
fortune hunter (a person who seeks wealth through marriage)
bluffer; four-flusher (a person who tries to bluff other people)
chiseler; chiseller; defrauder; gouger; grifter; scammer; swindler (a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud)
decoy; steerer (a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot))
dodger; fox; slyboots (a shifty deceptive person)
betrayer; double-crosser; double-dealer; traitor; two-timer (a person who says one thing and does another)
defalcator; embezzler; peculator (someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for their own use)
falsifier (someone who falsifies)
finagler; wangler (a deceiver who uses crafty misleading methods)
counterfeiter; forger (someone who makes copies illegally)
Meaning:
The act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
swindle; cheat; rig
Context example:
that book is a fraud
Hypernyms ("cheat" is a kind of...):
fraud (intentional deception resulting in injury to another person)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cheat"):
shell game; thimblerig (a swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under)
swiz (British)
holdout (the act of hiding playing cards in a gambling game so they are available for personal use later)
pyramiding (a fraudulent business practice involving some form of pyramid scheme e.g., the chain of distribution is artificially expanded by an excessive number of distributors selling to other distributors at progressively higher wholesale prices until retail prices are unnecessarily inflated)
bunco; bunco game; bunko; bunko game; con; con game; confidence game; confidence trick; flimflam; gyp; hustle; sting (a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property)
cozenage; scam (a fraudulent business scheme)
Meaning:
A deception for profit to yourself
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
cheating; cheat
Hypernyms ("cheat" is a kind of...):
deceit; deception; dissembling; dissimulation (the act of deceiving)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cheat"):
gerrymander (an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage))
• CHEAT (verb)
Meaning:
Deprive somebody of something by deceit
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
rip off; cheat; chisel
Context examples:
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
Hypernyms (to "cheat" is one way to...):
victimise; victimize (make a victim of)
"Cheat" entails doing...:
cozen; deceive; delude; lead on (be false to; be dishonest with)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cheat"):
beguile; hoodwink; juggle (influence by slyness)
welsh (cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt)
whipsaw (victimize, especially in gambling or negotiations)
beat; bunk (avoid paying)
bilk (cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money)
bunco; con; defraud; diddle; gip; goldbrick; gyp; hornswoggle; mulct; nobble; rook; scam; short-change; swindle; victimize (deprive of by deceit)
fleece; gazump; hook; overcharge; pluck; plume; rob; soak; surcharge (rip off; ask an unreasonable price)
cozen (cheat or trick)
gazump (raise the price of something after agreeing on a lower price)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody of something
Sentence examples:
Sam cannot cheat Sue
They cheat him of all his money
Meaning:
Defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Synonyms:
jockey; chouse; chicane; cheat; shaft; screw
Hypernyms (to "cheat" is one way to...):
beat; beat out; crush; shell; trounce; vanquish (come out better in a competition, race, or conflict)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
chisel; cheat
Context example:
Who's chiseling on the side?
Hypernyms (to "cheat" is one way to...):
cozen; deceive; delude; lead on (be false to; be dishonest with)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cheat"):
cook; fake; falsify; fudge; manipulate; misrepresent; wangle (fake or falsify)
crib (use a crib, as in an exam)
cozen (act with artful deceit)
rig; set up (arrange the outcome of by means of deceit)
shark (play the shark; act with trickery)
job (profit privately from public office and official business)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sentence example:
Sam and Sue cheat
Meaning:
Be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
cheat on; cuckold; wander; betray; cheat
Context examples:
She cheats on her husband / Might her husband be wandering?
Hypernyms (to "cheat" is one way to...):
cozen; deceive; delude; lead on (be false to; be dishonest with)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cheat"):
two-time (carry on a romantic relationship with two people at the same time)
fool around; play around (commit adultery)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Sentence example:
Sam cannot cheat Sue
