cheat out of

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)

1. To trick (someone) into giving something up; to unfairly deprive someone of (something).
   • 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.'1846, Robert Chambers, Cyclopedia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographcal, of British Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Times, volume 1
   • My dear Sir William, my Marmion has won the cup at Ilsley and been cheated out of it.1870, Mary Russell Mitford, The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Related in a Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends, volume 1