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cheat | uncheatable |

As a verb cheat

is to violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.

As a noun cheat

is someone who cheats (informal: cheater).

As an adjective uncheatable is

not subject to cheating, impossible to cheat (at).

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

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    uncheatable

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    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not subject to cheating, impossible to cheat (at).
  • * 2002 , George W. Barlow, The Cichlid Fishes: Nature’s Grand Experiment In Evolution , Da Capo Press, ISBN 978-0-7382-0528-1, page 100:
    • (SIC) argued, however, that natural selection should favor signals that cannot be cheated.32 Uncheatable signals carry a cost, a handicap.
  • * 2005 , Song Han, Elizabeth Chang, and Jie Wang, “Attack on Undeniable Partially Blind Signatures”, Andrew Blyth (editor), EC2ND 2005: Proceedings Of The First European Conference on Computer Network Defence, School Of Computing, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK , Birkhäuser (2006), ISBN 978-1-84628-311-6, page 143,
    • We show that the signer can disavow any valid signature to the verifier. In other words, we show that the disavowal of their scheme is not uncheatable .

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