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cheated death

cheated death is the simple past and past participle of cheat death.

Meaning of cheat death

Verb

cheat death (third-person singular simple present cheats death, present participle cheating death, simple past and past participle cheated death)

  1. To survive a situation which would be expected to result in death.
    • From Olar, Han
      Shepard,
      They say you're alive. That you cheated death. That sending you this isn't just a pointless exercise as part of my therapy. They say a lot of things.2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Therapy
    Synonyms:
    cheat fate

Questions about cheated death

What is cheated death the simple past and past participle of?
Cheated death is the simple past and past participle of cheat death.

Words near cheated death in the dictionary

  1. cheatability
  2. cheatable
  3. cheatcode
  4. cheatcodes
  5. cheated
  6. cheated death
  7. cheated fate
  8. cheated on
  9. cheated out
  10. cheated out of
  11. cheated the pocket

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cheated death (page history and authors); cheat death (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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