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microcheat

microcheat is the alternative form 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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Forms of microcheat

Verb
third-person singular presentmicrocheats
present participlemicrocheating
past participlemicrocheated
pastmicrocheated
Noun
pluralmicrocheats

Words formed from microcheat

Questions about microcheat

What is microcheat the alternative form of?
Microcheat is the alternative form of micro-cheat.

Words near microcheat in the dictionary

  1. microcharacters
  2. microcharcoal
  3. microcharcoals
  4. microcharge
  5. microcharges
  6. microcheat
  7. microcheated
  8. microcheater
  9. microcheaters
  10. microcheating
  11. microcheats

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Adapted from Wiktionary: microcheat (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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