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单词 cheat out of
释义

cheat out of

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)

  1. 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.
    • 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.
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