Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Cheat \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.