Cheater vs. Cheat

Cheaternoun

One who cheats.

Cheatverb

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

‘My brother flunked biology because he cheated on his mid-term.’;

Cheaternoun

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.

Cheatverb

(intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.

‘My husband cheated on me with his secretary.’; ‘After he found out his wife cheated, he left her.’;

Cheaternoun

(obsolete) An escheater.

Cheatverb

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

‘He cheated death when his car collided with a moving train.’; ‘I feel as if I've cheated fate.’;

Cheaternoun

One who cheats.

Cheatverb

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

‘My ex-wife cheated me out of $40,000.’; ‘He cheated his way into office.’;

Cheaternoun

An escheator.

Cheatverb

To beguile.

Cheaternoun

someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

Cheatnoun

Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).

Cheatnoun

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

Cheatnoun

The weed cheatgrass.

Cheatnoun

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

Cheatnoun

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

Cheatnoun

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

‘When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat.’;

Cheatnoun

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

‘Airy wonders, which cheats interpret.’;

Cheatnoun

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

Cheatnoun

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

Cheatnoun

Wheat, or bread made from wheat.

‘Their purest cheat,Thrice bolted, kneaded, and subdued in paste.’;

Cheatverb

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

‘I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island.’;

Cheatverb

To beguile.

‘To cheat winter of its dreariness.’;

Cheatverb

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

Cheatnoun

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

Cheatnoun

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

Cheatnoun

someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

Cheatnoun

the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme;

‘that book is a fraud’;

Cheatnoun

a deception for profit to yourself

Cheatverb

deprive somebody of something by deceit;

‘The con-man beat me out of $50’; ‘This salesman ripped us off!’; ‘we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme’; ‘They chiseled me out of my money’;

Cheatverb

defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit

Cheatverb

engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud;

‘Who's chiseling on the side?’;

Cheatverb

be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage;

‘She cheats on her husband’; ‘Might her husband be wandering?’;