Scammed vs Cheat - What's the difference?
scammed | cheat |
(scam)
To defraud or embezzle.
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 scammed and cheat
is that scammed is past tense of scam while cheat is to violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.As a noun cheat is
someone who cheats (informal: cheater).scammed
English
Verb
(head)scam
English
Synonyms
* con game * confidence trick * See alsoVerb
(scamm)- They tried to scam her out of her savings.
Synonyms
* (verb)Anagrams
* * * * * *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 .