Cheater vs. Cheat — What's the Difference?

To deceive by trickery; swindle

To deceive by trickery; swindle

To deprive by trickery; defraud

To deprive by trickery; defraud

To mislead; fool

To mislead; fool

To elude; escape

To elude; escape

To act dishonestly; practice fraud.

To act dishonestly; practice fraud.

To violate rules deliberately, as in a game

To violate rules deliberately, as in a game

(Informal) To be sexually unfaithful

(Informal) To be sexually unfaithful

(Sports) To position oneself closer to a certain area than is normal or expected

(Sports) To position oneself closer to a certain area than is normal or expected

An act of cheating; a fraud or swindle.

An act of cheating; a fraud or swindle.

One who cheats; a swindler.

One who cheats; a swindler.

A technique that exploits a flaw or hidden feature in a video game or computer program.

A technique that exploits a flaw or hidden feature in a video game or computer program.

(Law) Fraudulent acquisition of another's property.

(Law) Fraudulent acquisition of another's property.

(Botany) Any of several species of brome, especially Bromus secalinus, an annual European grass widespread as a weed.

(Botany) Any of several species of brome, especially Bromus secalinus, an annual European grass widespread as a weed.

One who cheats.

(intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.

An improvised breaker bar made from a length of pipe and a wrench (spanner), usually used to free screws, bolts, etc. that are difficult to remove with a ratchet or wrench alone.

(intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner; to commit adultery, or to engage in sexual or romantic conduct with a person other than one's partner in contravention of the rules of society or agreement in the relationship.

(obsolete) An escheater.

(transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed inevitable.

One who cheats.

(transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.

An escheator.

Someone who cheats.

Someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.

The weed cheatgrass.

(card games) A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.

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

(obsolete) A sort of low-quality bread.

An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.

One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a cheater.

A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; - called also chess. See Chess.

The obtaining of property from another by an intentional active distortion of the truth.

Wheat, or bread made from wheat.

To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle.

To beguile.

To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards.

Weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous

Weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat

Someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

The act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme;

A deception for profit to yourself

Deprive somebody of something by deceit;

Defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit

Engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud;

Be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage;