Cheat

Definition

cheat /tʃi:t/ v ၁။ လိမ္လည္လွည့္စားသည္။ Many people are cheated by shop signs offering ‘bargains’. ❍ The employees feel cheated by their low pay rise. ❍ cheat the taxman (ie avoid paying one's taxes) ❍ ( fig ) cheat death. ေသမင္းခံတြင္းဝမွ လြတ္လာသည္။ ေသရြာမွ ျပန္လာသည္။ ၂။ ~ (at sth) မသမာေသာနည္းကို အသံုးျပဳသည္။ accuse sb of cheating at cards. ၃။ ~ (on) sb ( esp US ) (အိမ္ေထာင္ေရး) ေဖာက္ျပားသည္။ n ၁။ လူလိမ္။ You little cheat! ၂။ အလိမ္။ လိမ္နည္း။ ❏ cheat sb (out) of sth [ PHRV ] သူတစ္ပါး အခြင့္အလမ္း ကို မတရားသျဖင့္ ဆံုး႐ံႈးေစသည္။ He was cheated (out) of his rightful inheritance.

Examples

1. Kids have always found ways of cheating in school exams.
2. You can’t do that – it’s cheating.
3. You can cheat by adding a little flour.
4. The builders had cheated her by using low-quality materials.
5. [cheat someone (out) of something] : He was accused of cheating investors out of their life savings.
6. He swore to me that he had never cheated.