different between cheat vs mistreat

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?i?t/
• Rhymes: -i?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English cheten, an aphetic variant of acheten, escheten, from Old French escheoiter, from the noun (see below). Displaced native Old English beswican.

Verb

cheat (third-person singular simple present cheats, present participle cheating, simple past and past participle cheated)

1. (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.

   Synonym: break the rules

2. (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.

3. (transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed inevitable.

4. (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.

   Synonyms: belirt, blench, lirt

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English chete, an aphetic form of eschete, escheat (“the reversion of property to the state if there are no legal claimants”), from Anglo-Norman escheat, Old French eschet, escheit, escheoit (“that which falls to one”), from the past participle of eschoir (“to fall”) (modern French échoir), from Vulgar Latin *excad?, from Latin ex + cad? (“I fall”).

Noun

cheat (plural cheats)

1. Someone who cheats.

   Synonym: (informal) cheater

2. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.

   Synonyms: fraud, trick, imposition, imposture
3. The weed cheatgrass.
4. (card games) A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.

   Synonyms: bullshit, BS, I doubt it

5. (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.
   • 1992, Phil Howard, Cheat Mode (in Amstrad Action issue 76, January 1992, page 32)

     I've had a number of requests for a cheat for Turrican the first. Yes, there is a keypress built in […]

Synonyms

• double play

Translations

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? French: cheat
• ? German: Cheat

Further reading

• cheat (game) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• 'tache, Tache, Taché, Teach, Tâche, chate, he-cat, tache, teach, theca

French

Etymology

English cheat

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?it/

Noun

cheat m (plural cheats)

1. (video games) cheat

English

Etymology

mis- +? treat

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?t

Verb

mistreat (third-person singular simple present mistreats, present participle mistreating, simple past and past participle mistreated)

1. (transitive) To treat someone, or something roughly or badly.

Translations

See also

• maltreat

Anagrams

• martites, mitrates, teratism