cheat
An act of deception or fraudAn act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
» The student was punished for cheating.
Студентів покарали за списування. — deniko
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6 senses(countable)An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
(countable)Someone who cheats.
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
(uncountable)The weed cheatgrass.
(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
(countable)A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.
Cheat
читčit
(obsolete, uncountable)A sort of low-quality bread.
Examples
959 sentencesThe student was punished for cheating.
Студентів покарали за списування. — deniko
He cheated on the biology exam.
Він списував на екзамені з біології. — ChickenKiev
ruОн списывал на экзамене по биологии. — shanghainese
Tom cheated on the history exam.
На екзамені з історії Том списував. — deniko
ruТом списывал на экзамене по истории. — marafon
deTom hat beim Geschichtsexamen geschummelt. — dannylow
Tom won the match by cheating.
Том виграв матч за допомогою шахрайства. — deniko
I think that Tom is cheating.
Мені здається, Том списує. — deniko
Translations
7 languagesBy meaning 2
By meaning 1
Origin
Verb from Middle English achetan, variant of escheten, from Old French escheat, past partiVerb 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: cheatsSynonyms
19 synonyms- a deception for profit to yourself:cheating
- the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme:swindlerigfraud
- someone who leads you to believe something that is not true:deceivercheatertricksterbeguilerslicker
- weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat:chessBromus secalinus
- weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous:darneltarebearded darnelLolium temulentum
Word family
29 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
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