English > cheat: 9 senses > noun 3, person | Meaning | someone who leads you to believe something that is not true. |
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| Synonyms | deceiver, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker |
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| Narrower | bluffer, four-flusher | A person who tries to bluff other people |
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| decoy, steerer | A beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot) |
| dodger, fox, slyboots | A shifty deceptive person |
| double-crosser, double-dealer, two-timer, betrayer, traitor | A person who says one thing and does another |
| embezzler, defalcator, peculator | someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use |
| falsifier | someone who falsifies / falsifies / falsifies / falsifies |
| finagler, wangler | A deceiver who uses crafty misleading methods |
| forger, counterfeiter | someone who makes copies illegally |
| fortune hunter | A person who seeks wealth through marriage |
| front man, front, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman | A person used as a cover for some questionable activity |
| hypocrite, dissembler, dissimulator, phony, phoney, pretender | A person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives |
| impersonator, imitator | someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another |
| imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player | A person who makes deceitful pretenses |
| liar, prevaricator | A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly |
| misleader | someone who leads astray (often deliberately) |
| mountebank, charlatan | A flamboyant deceiver |
| obscurantist | A person who is deliberately vague |
| sandbagger | someone who deceives you about his true nature or intent in order to take advantage of you |
| swindler, defrauder, chiseller, chiseler, gouger, scammer, grifter | A person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud / fraud |
| two-timer | someone who deceives a lover or spouse by carrying on a sexual relationship with somebody else |
| utterer | someone who circulates forged banknotes or counterfeit coins |
| Broader | wrongdoer, offender | A person who transgresses moral or civil law |
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| Spanish | estafador, tramposo |
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| Catalan | estafador, trampós |
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| Verbs | cheat | engage in deceitful behavior |
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English > cheat: 9 senses > noun 4, act| Meaning | The act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme. |
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| Synonyms | swindle, rig |
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| Narrower | bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, hustle, sting, flimflam | A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property |
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| gyp, gip | A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property |
| holdout | The act of hiding playing cards in a gambling game so they are available for personal use later |
| pyramiding | A fraudulent business practice involving some form of pyramid scheme e.g., the chain of distribution is artificially expanded by an excessive number of distributors / distributors selling to other distributors / distributors at progressively higher wholesale prices until retail prices are unnecessarily inflated |
| scam, cozenage | A fraudulent business scheme |
| shell game, thimblerig | A swindling sleight-of-hand game |
| swiz | British slang for a swindle |
| Broader | fraud | Intentional deception resulting in injury to another person |
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| Spanish | aletazo, arana, embaimiento, embaucamiento, engañifa, engaño, estafa, fraude, mangancia, petardo, pufo, superchería, timo, tocomocho, trapacería |
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| Catalan | enganyifa, engany, ensarronada, estafada, estafa, martingala, tripijoc |
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| Verbs | cheat | defeat someone through trickery or deceit |
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English > cheat: 9 senses > verb 1, social| Meaning | deprive somebody of something by deceit. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody of something |
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| Model | They cheat him of all his money; Sam cannot cheat Sue |
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| Example | "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme" |
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| Synonyms | rip off, chisel |
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| Entails | deceive, lead on, delude, cozen | Be false to |
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| Narrower | beat, bunk | avoid paying |
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| bilk | cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money |
| cozen | cheat or trick |
| gazump | Raise the price of something after agreeing on a lower price |
| gyp, gip | deprive of by deceit |
| juggle, beguile, hoodwink | Influence by slyness |
| overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume, pluck, rob, hook | rip off |
| victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, hornswoggle, short-change, con | deprive of by deceit |
| welsh, welch | cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt |
| whipsaw | victimize, especially in gambling or negotiations |
| Broader | victimize, victimise | make a victim / victim of |
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| Spanish | arrancar, birlar, descuerar, engañar, estafar, timar |
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| Catalan | ensarronar, estafar |
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| Nouns | cheat, cheating | a deception for profit to yourself |
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| cheater | someone who leads you to believe something that is not true |
