cheat – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to cheat
Participle: cheated
Gerund: cheating

Cognates

-

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	cheat
we	Let's cheat
you	cheat

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to take something that does not belong to one

abduct, abstract, appropriate, bag, bandit, bone, boost, borrow, burglarize, burgle, chore, convert, cop, cozen, crib, embezzle, filch, fleece, flog, gaffle, half-inch, heist, jack, kidnap, knock off, kype, kyper, liberate, lift, loot, make off with, mill, misappropriate, moonlight requisition, nick, own, peculate, pickpocket, pilfer, pillage, pinch, pirate, plunder, poach, pocket, prig, purloin, raid, ransack, rape, reave, rip, rip off, rob, run off with, snag, snatch, steal, swindle, swipe, thieve, walk off with

swindle

defraud, gyp, bilk, dupe, deceive, con, entrap, gull

deceive

betray, trick, hoodwink, dupe, beguile, delude, bamboozle, cozen

Antonyms

deceive

undeceive, enlighten, counsel, disabuse

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. c.1375, aphetic of O.Fr. escheat, legal term for revision of property to state when owner dies without heirs, lit. "that which falls to one," pp. of escheoir "befall by chance, happen, devolve," from V.L. *excadere "to fall away," from L. ex- "out" + cadere "to fall" (see case (1)). Meaning evolved through "confiscate" (c.1440) to "deprive unfairly" (1590). To cheat on (someone) "be sexually unfaithful" first recorded 1934.
2. Verb from Middle English achetan, variant of escheten, from Old French escheat, past participle of escheoir, escheoiter, from Late Latin *excadēre (“fall away, fall out”), from (Latin) ex- + cadere (“fall”). Displaced native Old English beswīcan.
3. Noun from verb and/or Middle English chete, aphetic form of achete, escheat, eschete (“the reversion of property to the state”), from Anglo-Norman eschete and Old French eschet, escheit, escheoit (“that which falls to one”), past participle of escheoir (“to fall”) (modern French échoir), from Late Latin *excadēre (“fall away, fall out”), from (Latin) ex- + cadere (“fall”).
4. Doublet of escheat. See: French 'échoir'.

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