'Cheating' definitions:
Definition of 'cheating'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Not faithful to a spouse or lover; "adulterous husbands and wives"; "a two-timing boyfriend" [syn: adulterous, cheating(a), two-timing(a)]
adjective
Violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior" [syn: cheating(a), dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike]
noun
A deception for profit to yourself [syn: cheat, cheating]
Definition of 'Cheating'
From: GCIDE
- Cheat \Cheat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cheated; p. pr. & vb. n. Cheating.] [See Cheat, n., Escheat.]
- 1. To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle. [1913 Webster]
- I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To beguile. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- To cheat winter of its dreariness. --W. Irving.
- Syn: To trick; cozen; gull; chouse; fool; outwit; circumvent; beguile; mislead; dupe; swindle; defraud; overreach; delude; hoodwink; deceive; bamboozle. [1913 Webster]