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becheat en · VERB

Etymology

From be- + cheat.

Meanings

1. (rare, transitive) to cheat; cheat out of
   • Virgil apart, however, and dull weather apart, I have never been made so fully aware, as during our brief survey of the environs of Rome, how marvellously our northern imaginations are bedazzled and becheated by the poets, and painters, and romancers of Italy; […] 1838, Notes on Naples and its environs, and on the road to it from Rome, by a traveller:
   • But are you not ashamed so to becheat him of his reasonable expectations! 1856, The Art Journal, page 150:

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