Misappropriate vs Cheat - What's the difference?
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To use something wrongly, or illegally
To 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.
Misappropriate is a related term of cheat.
As verbs the difference between misappropriate and cheat
is that misappropriate is to use something wrongly, or illegally while cheat is to violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.As a noun cheat is
someone who cheats (informal: cheater).misappropriate
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Verb
(misappropriat)Synonyms
(use wrongly) * misuse (embezzle) * defalcate * embezzle * peculatecheat
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 .