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cheat

Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃiːt/

The English word “cheat” has 11 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
  2. 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.
  3. To avoid a seemingly inevitable thing.
  4. To deceive; to fool; to trick.
  5. To disregard self-imposed restrictions or commitments in favour of resting or indulging oneself.

noun

  1. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
  2. Someone who cheats.
  3. The weed cheatgrass.
  4. Synonym of bullshit (“a card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies”).
  5. A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.
  6. A sort of low-quality bread.

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…

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