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cheated out

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

Meaning of cheat out

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To face or turn toward the audience more than would be natural, for instance in a staged conversation.
    • In stage acting, we are frequently asked to cheat out to the audience by opening up our body positions so that we are something halfway between facing them and our partner.2015, Robert Barton, Acting: Onstage and Off, page 184
    Synonyms:
    open up

Questions about cheated out

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

Words near cheated out in the dictionary

  1. cheatcodes
  2. cheated
  3. cheated death
  4. cheated fate
  5. cheated on
  6. cheated out
  7. cheated out of
  8. cheated the pocket
  9. cheatee
  10. cheatees
  11. cheater

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cheated out (page history and authors); cheat out (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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