HyperDic is a hyper-dictionary based on WordNet 2.1. This version links 147,249 word forms.
| Dictionary | A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z |
|---|---|
| Shopping | The largest selection of CHEAT products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| NOUN | 1 | cheat, darnel, tare, bearded darnel, Lolium temulentum | Weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | cheat, chess, Bromus secalinus | Weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat | |
| 3 | cheat, deceiver, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker | Someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | |
| 4 | cheat, swindle, rig | The act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme | |
| 5 | cheat, cheating | A deception for profit to yourself | |
| VERB | 1 | cheat, rip off, chisel | Deprive somebody of something by deceit |
| 2 | cheat, chouse, shaft, screw, chicane, jockey | Defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit | |
| 3 | cheat, chisel | Engage in deceitful behavior | |
| 4 | cheat, cheat on, cuckold, betray, wander | Be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage |
| Sounds | chiy't |
|---|---|
| Rhymes | aesthete, athlete, backseat, and 73 more rhymes in iyt... |
| Meaning | Weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land. Seeds sometimes considered poisonous. |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | darnel, tare, bearded darnel, Lolium temulentum |
| Broader | rye grass, ryegrass |
| Meaning | Weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat. |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | chess, Bromus secalinus |
| Broader | brome, bromegrass |
| Meaning | Someone who leads you to believe something that is not true. |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | deceiver, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker |
| Broader | wrongdoer, offender |
| Narrower | bluffer, four-flusher; swindler, defrauder, chiseller, chiseler, gouger, scammer, grifter; decoy, steerer; dodger, fox, slyboots; double-crosser, double-dealer, two-timer, betrayer, traitor; embezzler, defalcator, peculator; falsifier; finagler, wangler; forger, counterfeiter; fortune hunter; front man, front, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman; hypocrite, dissembler, dissimulator, phony, phoney, pretender; impersonator, imitator; imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player; liar, prevaricator; misleader; mountebank, charlatan; obscurantist; sandbagger; two-timer; utterer |
| Verbs | cheat |
| Meaning | The act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme. |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | swindle, rig |
| Broader | fraud |
| Narrower | scam, cozenage; bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam; pyramiding; holdout; swiz; shell game, thimblerig |
| Verbs | cheat |
| Meaning | A deception for profit to yourself. |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | cheating |
| Broader | deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation |
| Narrower | gerrymander |
| Verbs | cheat |
| Meaning | Deprive somebody of something by deceit. |
|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody of something |
| Model | They cheat him of all his money; Sam cannot cheat Sue |
| Examples | "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme" |
| Synonyms | rip off, chisel |
| Broader | victimize, victimise |
| Narrower | gazump; cozen; overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume, pluck, rob, hook; victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con; bilk; beat, bunk; whipsaw; welsh; juggle, beguile, hoodwink |
| Entails | deceive, lead on, delude, cozen |
| Nouns | cheater; cheat, cheating |
| Meaning | Defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit. |
|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
| Synonyms | chouse, shaft, screw, chicane, jockey |
| Broader | beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish |
| Nouns | cheat; cheater |
| Meaning | Engage in deceitful behavior. Practice trickery or fraud. |
|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s |
| Model | Sam and Sue cheat |
| Synonyms | chisel |
| Broader | deceive, lead on, delude, cozen |
| Narrower | job; shark; rig, set up; cozen; crib; fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent |
| Nouns | cheat, cheater; cheating |
| Meaning | Be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage. |
|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s somebody |
| Model | Sam cannot cheat Sue |
| Examples | "She cheats on her husband" |
| Synonyms | cheat on, cuckold, betray, wander |
| Broader | deceive, lead on, delude, cozen |
| Narrower | two-time; play around, fool around |
© 2001-05 · HyperDic hyper-dictionary · Contact us
Privacy · Robots · Valid XHTML