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Cheat vs Lure - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between cheat and lure

is that cheat is to violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation while lure is to attract by temptation etc.; to entice.

As nouns the difference between cheat and lure

is that cheat is someone who cheats (informal: cheater) while lure is something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.

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

    * * *

    lure

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
    • (Milton)
  • (fishing) An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish.
  • A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk.
  • * 1594 , , IV. i. 178:
    • My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, / And till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, / For then she never looks upon her lure .
  • A velvet smoothing brush.
    • (Knight)

    Verb

    (lur)
  • To attract by temptation etc.; to entice.
  • To recall a hawk with a lure.

    • Related terms

    * (l)

    Anagrams

    * ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Verb

  • deceive, trick
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