cheat

1. verb

1)

customers were cheated

Syn:

swindle, defraud, deceive, trick, scam, dupe, hoodwink, double-cross, gull; informal rip off, con, fleece, shaft, hose, sting, bilk, diddle, rook, gyp, finagle, bamboozle, flimflam, put one over on, pull a fast one on, sucker, stiff, hornswoggle; formal mulct; literary cozen

2)

the boy cheated death

Syn:

avoid, escape, evade, elude; foil, frustrate, thwart

3)

it's not the first time her husband has cheated

Syn:

commit adultery, be unfaithful, stray; informal two-time, play around; archaic cuckold

2. noun

a liar and a cheat

Syn:

swindler, cheater, fraudster, trickster, deceiver, hoaxer, double-dealer, double-crosser, sham, fraud, fake, charlatan, quack, crook, snake oil salesman, mountebank; informal con man, con artist, scam artist, shark, sharper, phony, flimflammer, bunco artist; dated confidence man/woman