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Cheat vs Defeat - What's the difference?

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Cheat is a synonym of defeat.


In lang=en terms the difference between cheat and defeat

is that cheat is to deceive; to fool; to trick while defeat is to reduce, to nothing, the strength of.

As verbs the difference between cheat and defeat

is that cheat is to violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation while defeat is to overcome in battle or contest.

As nouns the difference between cheat and defeat

is that cheat is someone who cheats (informal: cheater) while defeat is the act of defeating or being defeated.

cheat

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
    • My brother flunked biology because he cheated on his mid-term.
  • To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
    • My husband cheated on me with his secretary.
  • To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
    • He cheated death when his car collided with a moving train.
    I feel as if I've cheated fate.
  • To deceive; to fool; to trick.
    • My ex-wife cheated me out of $40,000.
    He cheated his way into office.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island.
  • To beguile.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)
  • * Washington Irving
    • to cheat winter of its dreariness

    Synonyms

    * belirt * blench * break the rules * lirt

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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
    • When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat .
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * (card game ) bullshit, BS, I doubt it

    Derived terms

    * cheat code * cheater * cheating * cheat on * cheat the hangman * windcheater

    See also

    *

    Anagrams

    * * *

    defeat

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To overcome in battle or contest.
    • Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
  • To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
  • * Tillotson
    • He finds himself naturally to dread a superior Being that can defeat all his designs, and disappoint all his hopes.
  • * A. W. Ward
    • In one instance he defeated his own purpose.
  • To nullify
  • * Hallam
    • The escheators defeated the right heir of his succession.

    Synonyms

    (To overcome in contest) * beat * conquer * overthrow * rout * vanquish

    Related terms

    * defeasance * defeasible * defeater * defeatism * defeatist * defeature

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of defeating or being defeated.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 13 , author=Alistair Magowan , title=Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Two defeats in five games coming into this contest, and a draw with Everton, ultimately cost Sir Alex Ferguson's side in what became the most extraordinary finale to the league championship since Arsenal beat Liverpool at Anfield in 1989.}}