cheat
To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
Verb 3 meanings
To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
“My brother flunked biology because he cheated on his mid-term.”
To avoid a seemingly inevitable thing.
“He cheated death when his car collided with a moving train.”
To deceive; to fool; to trick.
“My ex-wife cheated me out of $40,000.”
Noun 3 meanings
An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
Someone who cheats.
The weed cheatgrass.
Etymology
Verb from Middle English achetan, variant of escheten, from Old French escheat, past participle of escheoir, escheoiter, from Late Latin *excadēre (“fall away, fall out”), from (Latin) ex- + cadere (“fall”). Displaced native Old English beswīcan.
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CHEAT at a glance
CHEAT has 5 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (C 3 + H 4 + E 1 + A 1 + T 1) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,345 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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