cheat

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Infinitive
to cheat

Third person singular
cheats

Simple past
cheated

Past participle
cheated

Present participle
cheating

to cheat (third-person singular simple present cheats, present participle cheating, simple past and past participle cheated)

  1. (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
  2. (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
  3. (transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
    1. To cheat death.
    2. To cheat fate.

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Singular
cheat

Plural
cheats

cheat (plural cheats)

  1. Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
  2. A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
  3. A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat code.

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