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Cheapen: Definition and part of speech

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Cheapen

  1. a. To beat down the price of; to lessen the value of; to depreciate.
  2. v. t. To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Cheat: Definition and part of speech

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Cheat

  1. n. The obtaining of property from another by an intentional active distortion of the truth.
  2. n. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
  3. n. One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a cheater.
  4. n. A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; — called also chess. See Chess.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.