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English
Verb
cheat out of (third-person singular simple present cheats out of, present participle cheating out of, simple past and past participle cheated out of)
- To trick (someone) into giving something up; to unfairly deprive someone of (something).
1846, Robert Chambers, Cyclopedia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographcal, of British Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Times, volume 1:Terence introduces a flatterer talking to a coxcomb, whom he cheats out of a livelihood, and a third person on the stage makes on him this pleasant remark, 'This fellow has an art of making fools madmen.'
1870, Mary Russell Mitford, The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Related in a Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends, volume 1:My dear Sir William, my Marmion has won the cup at Ilsley and been cheated out of it.
1981 August 8, Maida Tilchen, Joan E. Biren, “Picturing Lesbians”, in Gay Community News, page 8:If we just define lesbian as the way white middle-class lesbian feminists have mostly turned out to be, like much of the activist community in recent years, then we are cheating ourselves out of having a larger family.
2012, V. D. Carroll, Out of the Prison House, page 178:Relieved, he also felt cheated—cheated out of that final scene—that concluding memory that had promised such insight.