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A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; -- called also chess. See Chess. (more info) that fall to a lord or to the state by forfeiture, or by the death of the tenant without heirs; the meaning being explained by the frauds, real

Additional info about word: CHEAT

A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; -- called also chess. See Chess. (more info) that fall to a lord or to the state by forfeiture, or by the death of the tenant without heirs; the meaning being explained by the frauds, real or supposed, that were resorted to in procuring escheats. See 1. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture. When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. Dryden. 2. One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a cheater. Airy wonders, which cheats interpret. Johnson

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CHEAT)

• Artifice
• manoeuvre
• cheat
• wile
• contrivance
• craft
• trick
• fraud
• machination
• punning
• imposture
• stratagem
• Befool
• Deceive
• mystify
• bamboozle
• ensnare
• hoodwink
• mislead
• Cajole
• Tempt
• lure
• coat
• flatter
• wheedle
• delude
• inveigle
• dupe
• Counterfeit
• Cheat
• juggle
• artifice
• fabrication
• pretense
• ruse
• sham
• Cozen
• Circumvent
• swindle
• gull
• overreach
• coax
• seduce
• deceive

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CHEAT)

• Enlighten
• guide
• remunerate
• compensate
• undeceive
• disabuse
• Expose
• unmask
• detect

Related words: (words related to CHEAT)

• CAJOLERY
  A wheedling to delude; words used in cajoling; flattery. "Infamous cajoleries." Evelyn.
• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• CRAFTY
  1. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. "Crafty work." Piers Plowman. 2. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful. A noble crafty man of trees. Wyclif. 3. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.
• COZENAGE
  The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud. Shak.
• DETECTOR BAR
  A bar, connected with a switch, longer than the distance between any two consecutive wheels of a train , laid inside a rail and operated by the wheels so that the switch cannot be thrown until all the train is past the switch.
• ARTIFICER
  A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one
• SEDUCEMENT
  1. The act of seducing. 2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope.
• CIRCUMVENTOR
  One who circumvents; one who gains his purpose by cunning.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• TEMPTER
  One who tempts or entices; especially, Satan, or the Devil, regarded as the great enticer to evil. "Those who are bent to do wickedly will never want tempters to urge them on." Tillotson. So glozed the Tempter, and his proem tuned. Milton.
• SEDUCER
  One who, or that which, seduces; specifically, one who prevails over the chastity of a woman by enticements and persuasions. He whose firm faith no reason could remove, Will melt before that soft seducer, love. Dryden.
• TEMPTING
  Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; alluring; seductive; enticing; as, tempting pleasures. -- Tempt"ing*ly, adv. -- Tempt"ing*ness, n.
• CAJOLE
  To deceive with flattery or fair words; to wheedle. I am not about to cajole or flatter you into a reception of my views. F. W. Robertson. Syn. -- To flatter; wheedle; delude; coax; entrap. (more info) hence, to amuse with idle talk, to flatter,
• TRICK
  The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players. On one nice trick depends the general fate. Pope. (more info) draw; akin to LG. trekken, MHG. trecken, trechen, Dan. trække, and 1. An artifice
• JUGGLERESS
  1. A female juggler. T. Warton.
• TRICKISH
  Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. -- Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n.
• CHEATABLE
  Capable of being cheated.
• UNDECEIVE
  To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South.
• TRICKERY
  The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
• FLATTERY
  The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver
• METEMPTOSIS
  The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years,
• KINGCRAFT
  The craft of kings; the art of governing as a sovereign; royal policy. Prescott.
• BEFLATTER
  To flatter excessively.
• ESCHEATOR
  An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. Burrill.
• DEFRAUD
  To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing