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单词 cheat
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cheat
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To cheat is to use sneaky, unfair methods to get something you want. No one's going to want to play with you if you always cheat at mini golf.
Some people cheat at cards, and others cheat during math tests by copying from the student beside them. In either case, they're trying to succeed using underhanded tricks. You can refer to someone who does this as a cheat as well. Cheat comes from the Old French escheat, a legal term for the state taking someone's property when he or she dies without heirs. This practice was resented, and it came to mean "confiscate unfairly."
WORD FAMILY
cheat: cheated, cheater, cheating, cheats+/cheater: cheaters/cheating: cheatingly, cheatings
USAGE EXAMPLES
Since no one can know the future, analysts cheat.
Economist(Dec 01, 2016)
The long time periods involved also mean some drug cheats have already spent their winnings.
Seattle Times(Dec 01, 2016)
"These people, they have been cheated from so much," he added.
BBC(Nov 30, 2016)
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1v defeat someone through trickery or deceit
Syn|Hyper
chicane, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft
beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
2v deprive somebody of something by deceit
we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
chisel, rip off
gazump
raise the price of something after agreeing on a lower price
cozen
cheat or trick
fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge
rip off; ask an unreasonable price
bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize
deprive of by deceit
bilk
cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money
beat, bunk
avoid paying
whipsaw
victimize, especially in gambling or negotiations
welch, welsh
cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt
beguile, hoodwink, juggle
influence by slyness
extort, gouge, rack, squeeze, wring
obtain by coercion or intimidation
short, short-change
cheat someone by not returning him enough money
victimise, victimize
make a victim of
3v engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
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chisel
job
profit privately from public office and official business
shark
play the shark; act with trickery
rig, set up
arrange the outcome of by means of deceit
cozen
act with artful deceit
crib
use a crib, as in an exam
cook, fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle
tamper, with the purpose of deception
juggle
manipulate by or as if by moving around components
cozen, deceive, delude, lead on
be false to; be dishonest with
4v be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
She cheats on her husband
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betray, cheat on, cuckold, wander
two-time
carry on a romantic relationship with two people at the same time
fool around, play around
commit adultery
cozen, deceive, delude, lead on
be false to; be dishonest with
5n the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
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rig, swindle
cozenage, scam
a fraudulent business scheme
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
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
holdout
the act of hiding playing cards in a gambling game so they are available for personal use later
swiz
British slang for a swindle
shell game, thimblerig
a swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under
sting operation
a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals)
fraud
intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
6n a deception for profit to yourself
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cheating
gerrymander
an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation
the act of deceiving
7n someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
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beguiler, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster
Ananias
a habitual liar (after a New Testament character who was struck dead for lying)
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 his own use
falsifier
someone who falsifies
finagler, wangler
a deceiver who uses crafty misleading methods
counterfeiter, forger
someone who makes copies illegally
fortune hunter
a person who seeks wealth through marriage
figurehead, front, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman
a person used as a cover for some questionable activity
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
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
card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharp, cardsharper, sharper, sharpie, sharpy
a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games
clip artist
a swindler who fleeces the victim
coiner
a maker of counterfeit coins
con artist, con man, confidence man
a swindler who exploits the confidence of his victim
Judas
someone who betrays under the guise of friendship
mimic, mimicker
someone who mimics (especially an actor or actress)
name dropper
someone who pretends that famous people are his/her friends
paperhanger
someone who passes bad checks or counterfeit paper money
false witness, perjurer
a person who deliberately gives false testimony
craniologist, phrenologist
someone who claims to be able to read your character from the shape of your skull
quack
an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice
ringer
a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses
roper
a decoy who lures customers into a gambling establishment (especially one with a fixed game)
shill
a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others
charmer, smoothie, smoothy, sweet talker
someone with an assured and ingratiating manner
fabricator, fibber, storyteller
someone who tells lies
Tartufe, Tartuffe
a hypocrite who pretends to religious piety (after the protagonist in a play by Moliere)
welcher, welsher
someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager
whited sepulcher, whited sepulchre
a person who is inwardly evil but outwardly professes to be virtuous
offender, wrongdoer
a person who transgresses moral or civil law
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1n weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
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Lolium temulentum, bearded darnel, darnel, tare
rye grass, ryegrass
any of several annual or perennial Eurasian grasses
2n weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
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Bromus secalinus, chess
brome, bromegrass
any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions
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