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Dictionary Results For "cheating" [?]/[OPML]

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English

Noun

An act of deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, or imposition.

Adjective

unsporting|Unsporting or underhand.
unfaithful|Unfaithful or adulterous.

Verb

cheating

Anagrams

teaching

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Cheat \Cheat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cheated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Cheating.] [See Cheat, n., Escheat.]
1. To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to
swindle.
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I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his
cunning hath cheated me of this island. --Shak.
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2. To beguile. --Sir W. Scott.
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To cheat winter of its dreariness. --W. Irving.

Syn: To trick; cozen; gull; chouse; fool; outwit; circumvent;
beguile; mislead; dupe; swindle; defraud; overreach;
delude; hoodwink; deceive; bamboozle.
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WordNet cheating
adj 1: not faithful to a spouse or lover; "adulterous husbands and
wives"; "a two-timing boyfriend" [syn: adulterous, cheating(a),
two-timing(a)]
2: violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter";
"used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting
serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior" [syn: cheating(a),
dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike]
n : a deception for profit to yourself [syn: cheat]