cheat

Noun

• a deception for profit to yourself

• the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
  • that book is a fraud
    

• someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

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

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

Verb

• be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
  • She cheats on her husband
    
  • Might her husband be wandering?
    

• engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
  • Who's chiseling on the side?
    

• defeat someone 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  cheating , swindle , rig , deceiver , cheater , trickster , beguiler , slicker , chess , Bromus secalinus , darnel , tare , bearded darnel , Lolium temulentum , cheat on , cuckold , betray , wander , chisel , chouse , shaft , screw , chicane , jockey , rip off