cheat
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: card-games
games
video-games
Etymology: 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) ex- + cadere (“fall”).
Doublet of escheat.
Base: cadō
Affixes: ex-
Inflected forms:
form: cheats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cheating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cheated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cheated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: cheats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: My brother flunked biology because he cheated on his mid-term.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: My husband cheated on me with his secretary.
After he found out his wife cheated, he left her.
While the nonavoidant passive-aggressive cheats for the sexual gratification and tries to disguise his or her cheating afterwards, in contrast, the passive-aggressive avoidant cheats less for the sex than to send a message[…]
gloss: To avoid a seemingly inevitable thing.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He cheated death when his car collided with a moving train.
I feel as if I've cheated fate.
gloss: To deceive; to fool; to trick.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: My ex-wife cheated me out of $40,000.
He cheated his way into office.
I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island.
[T]he holly providentially planted about the house, to cheat winter of its dreariness, and throw in a gleam of green summer to cheer the fireside:—all these bespeak the influence of taste, flowing down from high sources, and pervading the lowest levels of the public mind.
The gig ended with Rotten uttering the now famous line, “Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?” On January 17, the Sex Pistols split up.
gloss: To disregard self-imposed restrictions or commitments in favour of resting or indulging oneself.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
gloss: An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat.
gloss: Someone who cheats.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: And he smote Corinius on his shaven jowl with the dice box, calling him cheat and mangy rascal, whereupon Corinius drew forth a bodkin to smite him in the neck withal; but some went betwixt them, and with much ado and much struggling and cursing they were parted, and it being shown that the dice were not loaded, the son of Corund was fain to make amends to Corinius, and so were they set at one again.
The caseworker couldn't understand how I could have stretched out my last bit of money for so long. She seemed convinced that I was "hiding" income from her and interrogated me for I don't know how long […] The system seems based on the assumption that people are "welfare cheats. If you don't speak English or are marginal in some other way, it's worse. I wish they'd put the Defense Department through what we go through.
gloss: The weed cheatgrass.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: I've had a number of requests for a cheat for Turrican the first. Yes, there is a keypress built in […]
Unpause the game, then repause the game and enter any of the following cheats: […]
Derived words: anticheat
becheat
cheatable
cheat-bread
cheat code
cheat curl
cheat day
cheat death
cheatee
cheater
cheatery
cheat fate
cheat grass
cheating
cheating death
cheatless
cheatlike
cheatline
cheat meal
cheat on
cheat out
cheat out of
cheat sheet
cheat the hangman
cheat the pocket
cheaty
cybercheat
micro-cheat
nubbing cheat
outcheat
play cheat
uncheatable
windcheater
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