| 单词 | cheat |
| 释义 | cheat (once / 409 pages) 1vn 2n 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 FAMILYcheat: cheated, cheater, cheating, cheats+/cheater: cheaters/cheating: cheatingly, cheatings USAGE EXAMPLESSince 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) 1 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 cozencheat or trick fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surchargerip off; ask an unreasonable price bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimizedeprive of by deceit bilkcheat somebody out of what is due, especially money beat, bunkavoid paying whipsawvictimize, especially in gambling or negotiations welch, welshcheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt beguile, hoodwink, juggleinfluence by slyness extort, gouge, rack, squeeze, wringobtain by coercion or intimidation short, short-changecheat someone by not returning him enough money victimise, victimize make a victim of 3v engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud Syn|Hypo|Hyper chisel job profit privately from public office and official business sharkplay the shark; act with trickery rig, set uparrange the outcome of by means of deceit cozenact with artful deceit cribuse a crib, as in an exam cook, fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangletamper, with the purpose of deception jugglemanipulate 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 Syn|Hypo|Hyper betray, cheat on, cuckold, wander two-time carry on a romantic relationship with two people at the same time fool around, play aroundcommit adultery cozen, deceive, delude, lead on be false to; be dishonest with 5n the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme Syn|Hypo|Hyper rig, swindle cozenage, scam a fraudulent business scheme bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, gyp, hustle, stinga swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property pyramidinga 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 holdoutthe act of hiding playing cards in a gambling game so they are available for personal use later swizBritish slang for a swindle shell game, thimbleriga swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under sting operationa 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 Syn|Hypo|Hyper 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 2Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper 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, swindlera person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud decoy, steerera beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot) dodger, fox, slybootsa shifty deceptive person betrayer, double-crosser, double-dealer, traitor, two-timera person who says one thing and does another defalcator, embezzler, peculatorsomeone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use falsifiersomeone who falsifies finagler, wanglera deceiver who uses crafty misleading methods counterfeiter, forgersomeone who makes copies illegally fortune huntera person who seeks wealth through marriage figurehead, front, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawmana person used as a cover for some questionable activity dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretendera 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, impersonatorsomeone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammera person who makes deceitful pretenses liar, prevaricatora person who has lied or who lies repeatedly misleadersomeone who leads astray (often deliberately) charlatan, mountebanka flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes obscurantista person who is deliberately vague sandbaggersomeone who deceives you about his true nature or intent in order to take advantage of you two-timersomeone who deceives a lover or spouse by carrying on a sexual relationship with somebody else utterersomeone who circulates forged banknotes or counterfeit coins card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharp, cardsharper, sharper, sharpie, sharpya professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games clip artista swindler who fleeces the victim coinera maker of counterfeit coins con artist, con man, confidence mana swindler who exploits the confidence of his victim Judassomeone who betrays under the guise of friendship mimic, mimickersomeone who mimics (especially an actor or actress) name droppersomeone who pretends that famous people are his/her friends paperhangersomeone who passes bad checks or counterfeit paper money false witness, perjurera person who deliberately gives false testimony craniologist, phrenologistsomeone who claims to be able to read your character from the shape of your skull quackan untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice ringera contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses ropera decoy who lures customers into a gambling establishment (especially one with a fixed game) shilla decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others charmer, smoothie, smoothy, sweet talkersomeone with an assured and ingratiating manner fabricator, fibber, storytellersomeone who tells lies Tartufe, Tartuffea hypocrite who pretends to religious piety (after the protagonist in a play by Moliere) welcher, welshersomeone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager whited sepulcher, whited sepulchrea person who is inwardly evil but outwardly professes to be virtuous offender, wrongdoer a person who transgresses moral or civil law 1n weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous Syn|Hyper 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 Syn|Hyper Bromus secalinus, chess brome, bromegrass any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions |
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