to cheat

Определение to cheat в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь: {v} rook; {v} crossbite; {v} geck; hocuspocus; To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely
To cheat fate.; To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner; {v} to defraud in a bargain, to deceive for the purpose of gaining an advantage; {n} a trickster, deceiver, fraud, trick sham; If someone cheats, they behave dishonestly to get what they want; One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a cheater; To beguile; the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud"; Dog takes the easy way May not enter water at an angle, takes a shortcut, avoids cover, etc; a deception for profit to yourself defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit 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"; To be unfaithful to ones spouse or partner; {f} deceive, swindle; betray, be disloyal; break rules; obtain answers or information in a dishonest way (on a test, etc.); To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle; engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who's chiseling on the side?; using ESC key, trainers, lag tampering, hacks, etc; If you say that someone cheats death, you mean they only just avoid being killed. He cheated death when he was rescued from the roof of his blazing cottage; To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation; {i} dishonest person, deceiver; fraud, deception; 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; An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture; Someone who cheats (informal: cheater); someone who leads you to believe something that is not true; 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"; If someone cheats you out of something, they get it from you by behaving dishonestly. The company engaged in a deliberate effort to cheat them out of their pensions Many brokers were charged with cheating customers in commodity trades; A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat code; Someone who is a cheat does not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying. Cheats will be disqualified; A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies; defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit; be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?"; A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; called also chess; Wheat, or bread made from wheat; When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam. Students may be tempted to cheat in order to get into top schools. + cheating cheat·ing In an election in 1988, he was accused of cheating by his opponent; a deception for profit to yourself; The actor's adjustment of body position away from what might be absolutely "natural" in order to accommodate the camera; can also mean looking in a different place from where the other actor actually is; engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who's chiseling on the side?"; To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards; The obtaining of property from another by an intentional active distortion of the truth; pull a fast one