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micro-cheating

micro-cheating is the present participle and gerund of micro-cheat.

Meaning of micro-cheat

Verb

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

  1. To show signs of attraction or focus on someone other than one's romantic partner.
    • There are plenty of different ways to micro-cheat on your partner. One of the prime examples is by going through someone's social media profile and liking old pictures of them – known as a "deep like".2018 March 23, Lauren Windle, “What is ‘micro-cheating’? How liking old Facebook photos and suggestive emojis could threaten to ruin relationships”, in The Sun

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Questions about micro-cheating

What is micro-cheating the present participle and gerund of?
Micro-cheating is the present participle and gerund of micro-cheat.

Words near micro-cheating in the dictionary

  1. micro-celebrity
  2. micro-cheat
  3. micro-cheated
  4. micro-cheater
  5. micro-cheaters
  6. micro-cheating
  7. micro-cheats
  8. micro-culture
  9. micro-cultures
  10. micro-dermabrasion
  11. micro-diskette

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