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

Verb

(escap)

To get free, to free oneself.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson

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To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.

* Shakespeare

sailors that escaped the wreck

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=March 1, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC

, title= Chelsea 2-1 Man Utd , passage=Luiz was Chelsea's stand-out performer, although Ferguson also had a case when he questioned how the £21m defender escaped a red card after the break for a hack at Rooney, with the Brazilian having already been booked.}}

To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.

To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.

* Ludlow

They escaped the search of the enemy.

(computing) To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character.

* 1998 August, (Tim Berners-Lee) et al. , Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax (RFC 2396), page 8:

If the data for a URI component would conflict with the reserved purpose, then the conflicting data must be escaped before forming the URI.

* {{quote-book, year=2002, author=Scott Worley, chapter=Using XML in ASP.NET Applications

, title= Inside ASP.NET , isbn=0735711356, page=214 , passage=Character Data tags allow you to place complex strings as the text of an element—without the need to manually escape the string.}}

* {{quote-book, year=2007, author=Michael Cross, chapter=Code Auditing and Reverse Engineering

, title= Developer's Guide to Web Application Security , isbn=159749061X, page=213 , passage=Therefore, what follows is a list of typical output functions; your job is to determine if any of the functions print out tainted data that has not been passed through some sort of HTML escaping function.}}

(computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.