Cheat, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Cheated; p. pr. & vb. n.Cheating.] [See Cheat, n., Escheat.] 1. To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle.
I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island.
Shak.
2. To beguile. Sir W. Scott.
To cheat winter of its dreariness.
W. Irving.
Syn. — To trick; cozen; gull; chouse; fool; outwit; circumvent; beguile; mislead; dupe; swindle; defraud; overreach; delude; hoodwink; deceive; bamboozle.