The noun cheat has 5 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. darnel, tare, bearded darnel, cheat, Lolium temulentum -- (weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous)
2. chess, cheat, Bromus secalinus -- (weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat)
3. deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker -- (someone who leads you to believe something that is not true)
4. swindle, cheat, rig -- (the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud")
5. cheat, cheating -- (a deception for profit to yourself)
Overview of verb cheat
The verb cheat has 4 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (2) cheat, rip off, chisel -- (deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money")
2. (2) cheat, chouse, shaft, screw, chicane, jockey -- (defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit)
3. (1) cheat, chisel -- (engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who's chiseling on the side?")
4. cheat on, cheat, cuckold, betray, wander -- (be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?")