cheat
1. weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land;
seeds sometimes considered poisonous
• Syn:
darnel, tare, bearded darnel, Lolium temulentum
• Hypernyms:
rye grass, ryegrass
2. someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
• Syn:
deceiver, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker
• Derivationally related forms:
beguile (for: beguiler), trick (for: trickster), cheat (for: cheater), deceive (for: deceiver)
• Hypernyms:
wrongdoer, offender
• Hyponyms:
bluffer, four-flusher, swindler, defrauder, chiseller,
chiseler, gouger, scammer, grifter, decoy, steerer,
dodger, fox, slyboots, double-crosser, double-dealer, two-timer,
betrayer, traitor, embezzler, defalcator, peculator, falsifier,
finagler, wangler, forger, counterfeiter, fortune hunter, front man,
front, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman, hypocrite,
dissembler, dissimulator, phony, phoney, pretender, impersonator,
imitator, imposter, impostor, fake, faker, fraud,
sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player, liar,
liar, misleader, mountebank, charlatan, obscurantist,
sandbagger, utterer
3. weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
• Syn:
chess, Bromus secalinus
• Hypernyms:
brome, bromegrass
4. the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- that book is a fraud
• Syn:
swindle, rig
• Derivationally related forms:
rig (for: rig), swindle (for: swindle)
• Hypernyms:
fraud
• Hyponyms:
scam, cozenage, bunco, bunco game, bunko,
bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp,
hustle, sting, flimflam, pyramiding, holdout, swiz,
shell game, thimblerig
5. a deception for profit to yourself
• Syn:
cheating
• Derivationally related forms:
cheat (for: cheating)
• Hypernyms:
deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation
• Hyponyms:
gerrymander
1. deprive somebody of something by deceit (Freq. 2)
- The con-man beat me out of $50
- This salesman ripped us off!
- we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme
- They chiseled me out of my money
• Syn:
rip off, chisel
• Derivationally related forms:
chiseler (for: chisel), chiseller (for: chisel), rip-off (for: rip off), cheater, cheating
• Hypernyms:
victimize, victimise
• Hyponyms:
gazump, cozen, overcharge, soak, surcharge,
fleece, plume, pluck, rob, hook, victimize,
swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco,
defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle,
short-change, con, bilk, beat, bunk, whipsaw,
welsh, welch, juggle, beguile, hoodwink
• Entailment:
deceive, lead on, delude, cozen
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s somebody of something
- They cheat him of all his money
- Sam cannot cheat Sue
2. defeat someone through trickery or deceit (Freq. 2)
• Syn:
chouse, shaft, screw, chicane, jockey
• Derivationally related forms:
chicanery (for: chicane), chicane (for: chicane), cheater
• Hypernyms:
beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
3. engage in deceitful behavior;
practice trickery or fraud (Freq. 1)
- Who's chiseling on the side?
• Syn:
chisel
• Derivationally related forms:
chiseler (for: chisel), chiseller (for: chisel), cheater, cheating
• Hypernyms:
deceive, lead on, delude, cozen
• Hyponyms:
job, shark, rig, set up, cozen,
crib, fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook,
wangle, misrepresent
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Sam and Sue cheat
4. be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
- She cheats on her husband
- Might her husband be wandering?
• Syn:
cheat on, cuckold, betray, wander
• Derivationally related forms:
cuckold (for: cuckold)
• Hypernyms:
deceive, lead on, delude, cozen
• Hyponyms:
two-time, play around, fool around
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s (for: wander)
- Somebody ----s
- Sam cannot cheat Sue
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