cheat out of
English
Verb
cheat out of (third-person singular simple present cheats out of, present participle cheating out of, simple past and past participle cheated out of)
- To trick (someone) into giving something up; to unfairly deprive someone of (something).
- 1846, Robert Chambers, Cyclopedia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographcal, of British Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Times, volume 1:
- Terence introduces a flatterer talking to a coxcomb, whom he cheats out of a livelihood, and a third person on the stage makes on him this pleasant remark, 'This fellow has an art of making fools madmen.'
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