Meaning

6 senses
  1. (countable)An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.

  2. (countable)Someone who cheats.

    someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

  3. (uncountable)The weed cheatgrass.

  4. (uncountable)Synonym of bullshit (“a card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies”).

    ве́рю-не-ве́рюvérju-ne-vérju

  5. (countable)A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.

    Cheat

    читčit

  6. (obsolete, uncountable)A sort of low-quality bread.

Examples

959 sentences
  1. The student was punished for cheating.

    Студентів покарали за списування.

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  2. He cheated on the biology exam.

    Він списував на екзамені з біології.

    ruОн списывал на экзамене по биологии.

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  3. Tom cheated on the history exam.

    На екзамені з історії Том списував.

    ruТом списывал на экзамене по истории.

    deTom hat beim Geschichtsexamen geschummelt.

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  4. Tom won the match by cheating.

    Том виграв матч за допомогою шахрайства.

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  5. I think that Tom is cheating.

    Мені здається, Том списує.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
card game:
unfair advantage in a computer game:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
unfair advantage in a computer game:

Origin

Verb from Middle English achetan, variant of escheten, from Old French escheat, past parti

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.

Inherited from Middle English chet (“low-quality bread”), of unknown origin; compare manchet.

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Forms

plural: cheats
Singularcheat
Pluralcheats

regular

Synonyms

20 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

29 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • cheated on the
  • was caught cheating
  • caught cheating
  • caught cheating on
  • cheating on a
  • being being cheated
  • trying to cheat
  • got caught cheating
  • cheated on his
  • had cheated on
  • is cheating on
  • felt cheated

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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