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cheating on

cheating on is the present participle and gerund of cheat on.

Meaning of cheat on

Verb

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

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cheat, on.
    • I was disqualified for cheating on my final exam.
  2. (colloquial, idiomatic, transitive) To be unfaithful to, especially in a romantic relationship.
    • Six years of a happy relationship, and then she had the nerve to cheat on me with a barman!

Questions about cheating on

What is cheating on the present participle and gerund of?
Cheating on is the present participle and gerund of cheat on.

Words near cheating on in the dictionary

  1. cheatiest
  2. cheatin'
  3. cheating
  4. cheating death
  5. cheating fate
  6. cheating on
  7. cheating out
  8. cheating out of
  9. cheating the pocket
  10. cheatingly
  11. cheatings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cheating on (page history and authors); cheat on (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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