different between cheated vs chested

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?i?t?d/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): [?t??i??d]

Adjective

cheated (comparative more cheated, superlative most cheated)

1. Having been deceived.

   The people feel cheated by the government's decision.

Verb

cheated

1. simple past tense and past participle of cheat

Anagrams

• teached

English

Etymology

chest +? -ed

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t??st.?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?t??st?d/, /?t??st?d/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?t?est?d/

Verb

chested

1. simple past tense and past participle of chest

Adjective

chested

1. (usually in combination) Having a chest (with a specified quality).
   • 1843, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Last of the Barons, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, Vol. II, pp. 126-7, [1]

     Spare, like Henry the Fifth, almost to the manly defect of leanness, his proportions were slight to those which gave such portly majesty to the vast-chested Edward, but they evinced the promise of almost equal strength […]

   • c. 1874, William Cullen Bryant, The Iliad of Homer, Translated into English Blank Verse, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Book III, p. 76, [2]

     Beholding Ajax then, the aged king / Asked yet again: "Who is that other chief / Of the Achaians, tall, and large of limb,— / Taller and broader-chested than the rest?"

   • 1925, DuBose Heyward, Porgy, London: Jonathan Cape, 1928, Part VI, p. 185, [3]

     Loud greetings followed, and another burst of laughter, heavy, deep-chested and glad.

   • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part Three, Chapter 1, [4]

     From behind him there emerged a broad-chested guard with a long black truncheon in his hand.

   • 1970, Nadine Gordimer, A Guest of Honour, Penguin, 1973, Part Two, p. 85,

     The schoolmaster himself was very thin, black and pigeon-chested under a woollen pullover.

   • 2009, Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, I Do Not Come to You by Chance, Hyperion, Chapter 27, [5]

     There was a corner shop at the end of my street which stocked these movies that were released in hundreds every week. Each featured the same yellow-skinned, abundantly chested actresses and the same dreadlocked men, and each had a Part 1, a Part 2, and Part 3 - at least. Too bad that the JAMB exam did not test knowledge of Nollywood.

   • 2015, Sr?a Popovi? and Matthew Miller, Blueprint for Revolution, New York: Spiegel & Grau, Chapter V,

     The Russian state invests much time and effort in projecting a certain image of Putin to its citizens. We've all seen those ridiculous photographs of King Vladimir, the bare-chested tough hero who wrestles with animals, dives in submarines, and practices judo.

   Jenny was the most flat-chested of her friends.

Usage notes

• Some combinations, such as "flat-chested", form comparative and superlative forms like "flatter-chested" and "flattest-chested". Other combinations, such as "barrel chested", form comparative and superlative forms like "more barrel-chested" and "most barrel-chested".
• Chested normally combines with an adjective or noun that modifies chest (as in ample-chested (“having an ample chest”)), but occasionally it stands alone as chested (“being in a chest”) or is modified by an adverb (as in amply chested, which is a rarer variant of ample-chested).

Derived terms

• barrel-chested
• flat-chested