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2. belittle, humiliate, mortify, shame, disgrace, discredit; slight, scorn, misprize, spurn; detract from, pull to pieces, deprecate, decry, disparage, asperse, jibe at; vilify, calumniate, slander, traduce, malign, slur, brand, defame; satirize, lampoon, poke fun at, laugh at, mock, ridicule; scoff at, pooh-pooh, make light of.
cheat, n. 1. cheater, swindler, fraud, confidence man, SI. con man, SI. flim-flam man, crook, chiseler; fake, phony, humbug, trickster, inveigler, bamboozler, dissembler, bluff, pettifogger; sharper, sharpie, shark, bilker, diddler; adventurer, rogue, picaroon, rascal, wolf in sheep's clothing, knave, deceiver, SI. fourflusher; imposter, masquerader, pretender, mountebank, hypocrite, charlatan, Inf. quack.
2. cheating, fraud, swindle, confidence game, Si. con game, SI. flim-flam game, Si. rip-off; deception, pretense, trick, hoax, imposture, artifice.
-v. 3. swindle, defraud, fleece, rook, gull, Archaic. chouse; overcharge, Si. soak, Inf. gyp, Si. chisel, SI. gaff, pluck, mulct; victimize, exploit, play on or upon, take advantage of, Inf. diddle, Inf. do, SI. burn.
4. delude, deceive, beguile, mislead, hoodwink; pull the wool over [s.o.'s] eyes, cozen, bluff, take in, bamboozle, bilk, hornswoggle, cully, jockey, Inf. buffalo, Inf finagle, SI. con, SI. flim-flam, SI. flam, SI. sting, SI. put across; trick, spoof, outwit, overreach, circumvent, get around, put one over on.
5. plagiarize, crib, lift; rig, fix, throw; stack the deck, mark the cards, load the dice.
6. cheat on play around, fool around; deceive, betray, play false, be unfaithful or untrue to, cuckold, Inf. two-time.
check, v. 1. stop, arrest, stay, stall, bring to a standstill; halt, pause, hesitate, balk, brake; put a stop or an end to, terminate, end, quash, quell, squash, Inf. put the kibosh on, nip in the bud; cut, cut back on, decrease, diminish, reduce, lessen, curtail, abridge.
2. restrain, hold back, control, limit, circumscribe, confine, restrict, Law. enjoin; hinder, hamper, block, obstruct, oppilate, inhibit; impede, retard, slow, handicap; curb, repress, constrain, contain, suppress, hold in, withhold; prevent, bar, debar, forbid, proscribe, Law. estop.
3. chain, fetter, shackle, hobble, trammel, bridle, rein, harness; choke, gag, muzzle, smother.
4. verify, corroborate, validate, authenticate, confirm, substantiate, support; investigate, research, Archaic. indagate, explore, survey, study; inquire into, probe, search into, look into; examine, inspect, test, scrutinize, peruse, look over.
5. check out Informal, take a look at, SI. take a gander at, Inf. give [s.o.] the once-over; assess, Inf. size up.
6. correspond, agree, jibe, prove right, tally, check out; conform, harmonize, fall in with, dovetail.
7. check up on oversee, supervise, overlook, Inf. keep tabs on, monitor, regulate.
-n. 8. stop, stay, prevention, preclusion, Law. estoppel; prohibition, forbiddance, disallowance, Law. injunction, Law. enjoinment; proscription, ban, embargo.
9. restraint, control, retardation, Chem. retardant; repression, inhibition, constraint; restriction, limitation, curb; damper, dampener, damp; bridle, bit, rein, checkrein, check line.
10. obstacle, deterrent, hindrance, impedient, trammel, balk; obstruction, oppilation, blockage, impediment, stopper; bar, barrier, barricade; block, stumbling block, catch, snag, hitch, drawback, liability;
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