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  1. transitive verb To deceive by trickery; swindle: cheated customers by overcharging them for purchases.
  2. transitive verb To deprive by trickery; defraud: cheated them of their land.
  3. transitive verb To mislead; fool: illusions that cheat the eye.
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  1. Middle English cheten, to confiscate, short for acheten, variant of escheten, from eschete, escheat; see escheat.

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  1. from Middle English chete, a clipped form of eschete, an escheat: see escheat, n. In senses 2–6, the noun is from the verb cheat.
  2. from Middle English cheten, confiscate, seize as an escheat, a clipped form of escheten, escheat: see escheat, v. and n., and cf. cheat, n. The sense of ‘defraud,’ which does not occur until the latter part of the 16th century, arose from the unscrupulous actions of the escheaters, the officers appointed to look after escheats: see escheator, cheater.
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