Adulterate vs Cheat - What's the difference?
adulterate | cheat |
Tending to commit adultery.
* , I.v.
Corrupted; impure; adulterated.
To corrupt.
To spoil by adding impurities.
* Spectator
To commit adultery.
To defile by adultery.
To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
To deceive; to fool; to trick.
* Shakespeare
To beguile.
* Washington Irving
Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
* Dryden
The weed cheatgrass.
A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat code.
As verbs the difference between adulterate and cheat
is that adulterate is to corrupt while cheat is to violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.As an adjective adulterate
is tending to commit adultery.As a noun cheat is
someone who cheats (informal: cheater).adulterate
English
(wikipedia adulterate)Adjective
(en adjective)- Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,
- With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts-
- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power
- So to seduce!- won to his shameful lust
- The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen.
Verb
(adulterat)- to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coins, etc.
- The present war has adulterated our tongue with strange words.
- (Milton)
Synonyms
* debaseDerived terms
* adulterant * adulterationReferences
* ----cheat
English
Verb
(en verb)- My brother flunked biology because he cheated on his mid-term.
- My husband cheated on me with his secretary.
- He cheated death when his car collided with a moving train.
- I feel as if I've cheated fate.
- My ex-wife cheated me out of $40,000.
- He cheated his way into office.
- I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island.
- (Sir Walter Scott)
- to cheat winter of its dreariness
Synonyms
* belirt * blench * break the rules * lirtNoun
(en noun)- When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat .