I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cheat in an exam British English , cheat on an exam AmE:
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She was caught cheating in the exam.
cheat in an examination
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Any student caught cheating in an examination will be suspended.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
form
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How, then, do we account for these very different responses to the different forms of cheating ?
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Traditionally, collaboration in the classroom, for instance, has been taboo, condemned as a form of cheating .
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It was not yet, however, unambiguously regarded as a form of cheating .
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We can approach these issues by re-examining the argument that doping is a form of cheating .
people
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He has received death threats after cheating hundreds of innocent people .
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He be cheating and fooling the people all these years.
system
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A police chief who tries to cheat the system is the wrong chief for us.
wife
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That it doesn't matter if you cheat on your wife , so long as she doesn't find out.
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When they first hooked up, Frank was cheating on his first wife to be with Kathie Lee.
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That included orders from on high to cheat on his wife by sleeping with a disciple, he has declared.
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John Kennedy cheated on his wife .
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If so, then he's a toad for cheating on his wife .
■ VERB
feel
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The games end in a brawl between the jongleur, who feels he is being cheated , and the saint.
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Sherman was relieved for a moment, but then he felt cheated .
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It revealed Docherty to be a witty, compulsive and outspoken man who feels cheated by the past.
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Magnanimously, I jumped in and offered to pay the discount difference so that my dining friend would not feel cheated .
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Young people feel cheated by their parents without really knowing of what they have been deprived.
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My sister, Susan, was up from Florida to pick up Patience and Jack. 1 was feeling very cheated .
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Nor is she the only one who feels cheated by Death Row.
lie
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Did he think he was the only one who could lie and cheat ?
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They lie and they cheat , making it impossible for us to serve them well.
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But lying and cheating to stay here does.
try
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As it turned out, he was the only taxi driver not to try to cheat me.
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Well, they are trying to cheat on their biology.
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Everywhere you turn these days some one is trying to cheat us out of something.
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In my descriptions I have tried not to cheat , and we shall have to work a little harder than otherwise.
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A police chief who tries to cheat the system is the wrong chief for us.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Cohen claimed that criminals posing as salesmen cheat Americans out of billions of dollars each year.
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He doesn't trust car mechanics -- he thinks they're all trying to cheat him.
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He had cheated his clients by selling them worthless stocks.
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Jenny always cheats at cards.
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She says she was cheated out of $10,000 she paid to a modeling agency.
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Studies indicate about 20 to 30 percent of college students cheat .
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The movie's young heroine lies, cheats, and steals to get what she wants.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Fong was more worried about being cheated than he was about making money.
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He showed me how to cheat .
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Please try and be really strong tonight and don't cheat at all.
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She was cheated out of last night, and though she does not know it she is going to lose tomorrow night too.
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The games end in a brawl between the jongleur, who feels he is being cheated, and the saint.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Don't pretend you can't afford to pay me that money back -- you're nothing but a cheat and a liar!
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I'll never play cards with you again, you cheater!
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My grandmother thinks all car salesmen are cheats.
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The law is aimed at catching tax cheats.
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Their teacher suspected them of cheating when they both missed the same question on the test.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And he said there was now further evidence to discredit a principal witness in the case as a liar and a cheat .
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He presented himself as a liar, a cheat .
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In other words, shortcut and cheat books.
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Priestley's warning was that it was essentially a cheat .
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The disk also contains secret cheat codes to provide additional ammunition and level skip features.
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This is what the cheat sheet said: 1.