The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cheat \Cheat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cheated; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Cheating.] [See Cheat, n., Escheat.]
   1. To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to
      swindle.
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            I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his
            cunning hath cheated me of this island. --Shak.
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   2. To beguile. --Sir W. Scott.
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            To cheat winter of its dreariness.    --W. Irving.

   Syn: To trick; cozen; gull; chouse; fool; outwit; circumvent;
        beguile; mislead; dupe; swindle; defraud; overreach;
        delude; hoodwink; deceive; bamboozle.
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