Definition of cheat

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Cheat (n.) The obtaining of property from another by an intentional active distortion of the truth.

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Sharper :: Sharper (n.) A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester..
Overreach :: Overreach (v. t.) To deceive, or get the better of, by artifice or cunning; to outwit; to cheat..
Dodge :: Dodge (n.) The act of evading by some skillful movement; a sudden starting aside; hence, an artful device to evade, deceive, or cheat; a cunning trick; an artifice..
Juggling :: Juggling (a.) Cheating; tricky.
Palmer :: Palmer (v. t.) One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice..
Diddler :: Diddler (n.) A cheat.
Thimblerig :: Thimblerig (v. t.) To swindle by means of small cups or thimbles, and a pea or small ball placed under one of them and quickly shifted to another, the victim laying a wager that he knows under which cup it is; hence, to cheat by any trick..
Cheater :: Cheater (n.) One who cheats.
Rogue :: Rogue (n.) A deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat.
Deception :: Deception (n.) That which deceives or is intended to deceive; false representation; artifice; cheat; fraud.
Mump :: Mump (v. t.) To deprive of (something) by cheating; to impose upon.
Gull :: Gull (n.) A cheating or cheat; trick; fraud.
Escheat :: Escheat (n.) The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction of the blood of the tenant, which may happen by his dying without heirs, and formerly might happen by corruption of blood, that is, by reason of a felony or attainder..
Beswike :: Beswike (v. t.) To lure; to cheat.
Defraud :: Defraud (v. t.) To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing taken or withheld..
Grease :: Grease (v. t.) To cheat or cozen; to overreach.
Escheatable :: Escheatable (a.) Liable to escheat.
Michery :: Michery (n.) Theft; cheating.
Treacher :: Treacher (n.) A traitor; a cheat.
Hocuspocus :: Hocuspocus (v. t.) To cheat.
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