"cheat on" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-cheat on.ogg [Australia] Forms: cheats on [present, singular, third-person], cheating on [participle, present], cheated on [participle, past], cheated on [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} cheat on (third-person singular simple present cheats on, present participle cheating on, simple past and past participle cheated on)
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cheat, on. Related terms: have an affair
    Sense id: en-cheat_on-en-verb-ZStPKIHy Categories (other): English phrasal verbs with particle (on) Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (on): 56 44
  2. (colloquial, idiomatic, transitive) To be unfaithful to, especially in a romantic relationship. Tags: colloquial, idiomatic, transitive Translations (be unfaithful to): خَانَ (ḵāna) (Arabic), aldatmaq (Azerbaijani), xəyanət etmək (Azerbaijani), enganyar (Catalan), 對某人不忠 (Chinese Mandarin), 对某人不忠 (duì mǒurén bùzhōng) (Chinese Mandarin), bedrage (Danish), kokri (Esperanto), pettää (Finnish), tromper (French), betrügen (German), megcsal (Hungarian), berselingkuh (Indonesian), tradire (Italian), 不倫をする (furin o suru) (alt: 妻を欺いて) (Japanese), enganar (Occitan), zdradzać (Polish), trair (Portuguese), înșela (Romanian), изменя́ть (izmenjátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), измени́ть (izmenítʹ) [perfective] (Russian), обманывать (obmanyvatʹ) (Russian), engañar (Spanish), poner los cuernos (Spanish), vara otrogen mot (Swedish), bedra (Swedish), aldatmak (Turkish), зра́джувати (zrádžuvaty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), зра́дити (zrádyty) [perfective] (Ukrainian), наставля́ти ро́ги (nastavljáty róhy) [idiomatic, imperfective] (Ukrainian), tromper (Walloon)
    Sense id: en-cheat_on-en-verb-xXbfC14o Disambiguation of 'be unfaithful to': 1 99

Inflected forms

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