Synonyms of the word

cheat

• v. (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
• v. (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
• v. (transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
• v. (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
• v. To beguile.
• n. Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
• n. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition;…
• n. The weed cheatgrass.
• n. A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
• n. (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat…

beat

• n. A stroke; a blow.
• n. A pulsation or throb.
• n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is…
• n. A rhythm.
• n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
• n. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
• n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
• n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially.
• n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
• n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
• n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
• n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
• n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
• n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those…
• n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
• v. (transitive) To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
• v. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
• v. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
• v. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc…
• v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
• v. (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price.
• v. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
• v. To tread, as a path.
• v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
• v. To be in agitation or doubt.
• v. To make a sound when struck.
• v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
• v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating…
• v. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
• adj. (US slang) exhausted.
• adj. dilapidated, beat up.
• adj. (gay slang) fabulous.
• adj. (slang) boring.
• adj. (slang, of a person) ugly.
• n. A beatnik.

beguiler

• n. A person who beguiles.

betray

• v. To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously…
• v. To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive.
• v. To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make…
• v. To disclose or discover, for example something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.
• v. To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen to lead into error or sin.
• v. To lead astray; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.
• v. To show or to indicate something not obvious at first, or would otherwise be concealed.

brome

• n. Any grass of the genus Bromus.
• n. (chemistry, obsolete) bromine.

bromegrass

• n. Any of various North American grasses, of the genus Bromus, that are used for forage.

cheater

• n. One who cheats.
• n. An improvised breaker bar made from a length of pipe and a wrench (spanner), usually used to free screws,…

cheating

• v. present participle of cheat.
• n. An act of deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, or imposition.
• n. (cinematography) The arrangement of people or items in a film so as to give the (false) impression that…
• adj. Unsporting or underhand.
• adj. Unfaithful or adulterous.

chess

• n. A board game for two players with each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules…
• n. (now chiefly US) Any of several species of grass in the genus Bromus, generally considered weeds.
• n. (military, chiefly in the plural) One of the platforms, consisting of two or more planks dowelled together,…

chicane

• n. (road transport, motor racing) A temporary barrier, or serpentine curve, on a vehicular path, especially…
• n. (bridge) The holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself. It counts as simple honours.
• n. Chicanery.
• v. (intransitive) To use chicanery, tricks or subterfuge.
• v. (transitive) To deceive.

chisel

• n. Gravel.
• n. (usually in the plural) Coarse flour; bran; the coarser part of bran or flour.
• n. A cutting tool consisting of a slim oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end…
• v. (intransitive) To use a chisel.
• v. (transitive) To work something with a chisel.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To cheat, to get something by cheating.

chouse

• v. (transitive) To cheat, to trick.
• n. One who is easily cheated; a gullible person.
• n. A trick; a sham.
• n. A swindler.
• v. (US, of cattle) To handle roughly, as by chasing or scaring.
• v. (US, regional) To handle, to take care of.
• v. (transitive, US, regional) To cause undesirable activity in livestock, such as running.

cozen

• v. (archaic) To cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way.

crush

• n. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
• n. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
• n. Crowd which produces uncomfortable pressure.
• n. A violent crowding.
• n. A crowd control barrier.
• n. An infatuation or affection for.
• n. The human object of such infatuation or affection.
• n. A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
• n. A party, festive function.
• n. (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season that this process takes…
• v. To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity…
• v. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.
• v. To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
• v. To oppress or burden grievously.
• v. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight…
• v. To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.
• v. (sports) to defeat emphatically.

cuckold

• n. A man married to an unfaithful wife, especially when he is unaware or unaccepting of the fact.
• n. A West Indian plectognath fish, Rhinesomus.
• n. The cowfish, Acanthostracion quadricornis and allied species.
• v. (transitive) To make a cuckold of someone by being unfaithful, or by seducing his wife.

darnel

• n. A species of ryegrass, Lolium temulentum, often found in wheat fields and often host to a fungus intoxicating…
• n. Various species of Lolium, especially as a weed in wheat fields.

deceit

• n. An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
• n. An act of deceiving someone.
• n. (uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive.
• n. (law) The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or…

deceive

• v. To trick or mislead.

deceiver

• n. A person who lies or deceives.
• n. (usually preceded by "the") Another name for Satan.

deception

• n. An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead someone into believing a lie or inaccuracy.

delude

• v. (transitive) To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To frustrate or disappoint.

dissembling

• n. The action of the verb dissemble.
• v. present participle of dissemble.

dissimulation

• n. The act of concealing the truth; hypocrisy or deception.
• n. Hiding one's feelings or intentions.

fraud

• n. (law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
• n. Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.
• n. The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
• n. A person who performs any such trick.
• n. (obsolete) A trap or snare.
• v. (obsolete) To defraud.

jockey

• n. One who rides racehorses competitively.
• n. That part of a variable resistor or potentiometer that rides over the resistance wire.
• n. An operator of some machinery or apparatus.
• n. (dated) A dealer in horses; a horse trader.
• n. (dated) A cheat; one given to sharp practice in trade.
• n. (Britain, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
• n. (Ireland, crime, slang) A rapist.
• v. To ride (a horse) in a race.
• v. To maneuver (something) by skill for one's advantage.
• v. To cheat or trick.

offender

• n. One who gives or causes offense.
• n. A person who commits an offense against the law, a lawbreaker.

rig

• n. (nautical) The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.
• n. Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.
• n. (US) A large truck such as a semi-tractor.
• n. The special apparatus used for drilling wells.
• n. (informal) A costume or an outfit.
• n. (slang, computing) A computer case, often modified for looks.
• n. An imperfectly castrated horse, sheep etc.
• n. (slang) Radio equipment, especially a citizen's band transceiver.
• v. (transitive) To fit out with a harness or other equipment.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To equip and fit (a ship) with sails, shrouds, and yards.
• v. (transitive, informal) To dress or clothe in some costume.
• v. (transitive) To make or construct something in haste or in a makeshift manner.
• v. (transitive) To manipulate something dishonestly for personal gain or discriminatory purposes.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To play the wanton; to act in an unbecoming manner; to play tricks.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer.
• n. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) A ridge.
• n. (obsolete) A wanton; one given to unbecoming conduct.
• n. (obsolete) A sportive or unbecoming trick; a frolic.
• n. (obsolete) A blast of wind.

ryegrass

• n. (countable) Any of several species of tufted grasses of the genus Lolium.
• n. (uncountable) A collection of plants of any of the species, as in a lawn or field.

screw

• n. A device that has a helical function.
• n. (derogatory) A prison guard.
• n. (derogatory) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.
• n. (US, slang, dated) An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or…
• n. (vulgar, slang) Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.
• n. (vulgar, slang) A casual sexual partner.
• n. (slang) Salary, wages.
• n. (billiards) Backspin.
• n. (slang) A small packet of tobacco.
• n. (dated) An old, worn-out, unsound and worthless horse.
• n. (mathematics) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated…
• n. An amphipod crustacean.
• n. (dated, slang) A prison guard.
• v. (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
• v. (transitive, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
• v. (transitive, slang) To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation. Sometimes used…
• v. (transitive) To apply pressure on; to put the screws on.
• v. To practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions.
• v. (transitive) To contort.
• v. (soccer, transitive) To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.
• v. (billiard, snooker, pool) To screw back.
• v. (US, slang, dated) To examine (a student) rigidly; to subject to a severe examination.

shaft

• n. (obsolete) The entire body of a long weapon, such as an arrow.
• n. The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.
• n. (by extension) Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.
• n. Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool, one of the poles between which an animal is harnessed…
• n. A beam or ray of light.
• n. The main axis of a feather.
• n. (lacrosse) The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick.
• n. A long, narrow passage sunk into the earth, either natural or for artificial.
• n. A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator; a liftshaft.
• n. A ventilation or heating conduit; an air duct.
• n. (architecture) Any column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pediment.
• n. The main cylindrical part of the penis.
• n. The chamber of a blast furnace.
• v. (transitive, slang) To fuck over; to cause harm to, especially through deceit or treachery.
• v. (transitive) To equip with a shaft.
• v. (transitive, slang) To fuck; to have sexual intercourse with.

shell

• n. A hard external covering of an animal.
• n. The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
• n. One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
• n. The hard external covering of various plant seed forms.
• n. The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
• n. The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
• n. A hollow usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon…
• n. The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
• n. Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in,…
• n. A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that…
• n. A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
• n. (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
• n. (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims…
• n. An engraved copper roller used in print works.
• n. (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
• n. (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
• n. (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper;…
• n. (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs…
• n. (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
• n. An emaciated person.
• n. A psychological barrier to social interaction.
• n. (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
• n. A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
• n. (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
• v. To remove the outer covering or shell of something. See sheller.
• v. To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
• v. (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
• v. (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
• v. (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
• v. (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
• v. To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
• v. (topology) To form a shelling.

slicker

• adj. comparative form of slick: more slick.
• n. One who or that which slicks.
• n. A waterproof coat or jacket.
• n. A person who is perceived as clever, urbane and possibly disreputable. (abbreviation of city slicker.).
• n. (slang) A swindler or conman.
• n. A symmetrical knife with a handle at each end, used for burnishing leather.
• n. (metalworking) A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mould after the withdrawal of the pattern.
• n. A two-handled tool for finishing concrete or mortar; a darby.
• v. To slither, as on a slick surface.
• v. To con or hoodwink.
• v. To use a slicker on.
• v. To smooth or slick.
• v. To spread mashed manure on fields as a form of fertilization.

swindle

• v. (transitive) To defraud (someone).
• v. (intransitive) To obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods.
• n. An instance of swindling.

tare

• n. (rare) A vetch, or the seed of a vetch.
• n. (rare) A damaging weed growing in fields of grain.
• n. The empty weight of a container; the tare weight or unladen weight.
• v. (chiefly business and law) To take into account the weight of the container, wrapping etc. in weighting…
• v. (sciences) To set a zero value on an instrument (usually a balance) that discounts the starting point.
• v. (obsolete) simple past tense of tear.
• n. Any of various dipping sauces served with Japanese food, typically based on soy sauce.

trickster

• n. (mythology, literature) Any of numerous figures featuring in various mythologies and folk traditions,…
• n. One who plays tricks or pranks on others.
• n. One who performs tricks (parts of a magician' act or entertaining difficult physical actions).
• n. An impish or playful person.
• n. A fraud (person who performs a trick for the purpose of unlawful gain).

trounce

• v. (transitive) to win against (someone) by a wide margin; to beat thoroughly, to defeat heavily.
• v. (transitive) to punish.
• v. (transitive) to beat severely; thrash.

vanquish

• v. To defeat, to overcome.

victimise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of victimize.

victimize

• v. To make someone a victim or sacrifice.
• v. To punish someone unjustly.
• v. To swindle or defraud someone.

wander

• v. (intransitive) To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.
• v. (intransitive) To stray; stray from one's course; err.
• v. (intransitive) To commit adultery.
• v. (intransitive) To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
• v. (intransitive) Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.
• n. The act or instance of wandering.

wrongdoer

• n. Someone who does wrong, whether morally, ethically, or in contravention of a law.