| 单词 | cheat |
| 释义 | cheat I. 1. a. < his financial activity turned out to be a great cheat > b. < the elaborate cheat that the positivistic movement has perpetrated upon the human spirit — Allen Tate > c. < tax cheats being discovered > d. < if I passed myself off … as a gentleman, I should deserve to be exposed as a cheat — G.B.Shaw > 2. archaic < a smelling cheat is a nose > < a nubbing cheat is the gallows > 3. a. b. c. 4. law Synonyms: see imposture II. transitive verb 1. < cheat a man out of his savings > < suspicious … lest she should be cheated out of the salary she had come resolved to demand — G.B.Shaw > 2. < cheated into cordial admiration by the splendor of the verses — Thomas De Quincey > 3. < by God's mercy Ludendorff was cheated of the Channel Ports — S.L.A.Marshall > < then I cheated my despair. I said that you were safe — Maurice Baring > 4. archaic intransitive verb 1. a. b. 2. < the divorce suit alleged that he had been cheating on his wife > Synonyms: < Jane Orange … was not liked. She was called stingy and it was said that she and her husband had cheated every one with whom they had dealings — Sherwood Anderson > swindle implies gross and large-scale cheating for gain by means of imposture or mean abuse of confidence < the despised Chinese, who were cuffed and maltreated and swindled by the Californians — Van Wyck Brooks > < Barnum knew the American public loved to be gulled … His genius consisted in knowing how to swindle them — W.L.Phelps > defraud, a more legalistic word, indicates taking away from or withholding from another his rights or possessions by calculated perversion of truth, chicanery, or coercive pressure < she ever claimed more than she could receive; they, as constantly, called themselves robbed and defrauded — Hilaire Belloc > cozen implies artful or tricky persuading, wheedling, bamboozling, or chiseling in deluding or obtaining < I fought … to save my niche … Old Gandolf cozened me, despite my call — Robert Browning > < the Popular Front — that famous opportunity for men of good will to be cozened by the Communists — C.G.Poore > overreach indicates outwitting, as in dealing or bargaining, or cheating, by crafty dishonesty < the suspicion that most of the talk they [the deaf] cannot hear consists in plottings and schemings to overreach or get around them — J.G.Cozzens > III. obsolete |
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