Cheated
/ˈtʃiːtɪd/noun
Past tense and past participle of cheat, meaning to deceive or trick someone.
Did you know?Cheat entered English through the idea of land or property being seized by the crown as a *forfeiture*, and only later shifted into the modern sense of trickery and fraud.
Etymological Timeline
Old French
OF
eschete
“property that falls back to a lord or ruler; forfeiture”
Middle English
EN
chete
“a legal forfeiture or seizure of property”
15th Century
EN
cheten
“to seize by legal right; later, to trick or defraud”
Modern English
EN
cheated
“deceived, tricked, or acted dishonestly”