Verb
cheat on (third-person singular simple present cheats on, present participle cheating on, simple past and past participle cheated on)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cheat, on.
I was disqualified for cheating on my final exam.
- (colloquial, idiomatic, transitive) To be unfaithful to, especially in a romantic relationship.
Six years of a happy relationship, and then she had the nerve to cheat on me with a barman!
Translations
- Arabic: خَانَ (ḵāna)
- Azerbaijani: aldatmaq (az), xəyanət etmək (az)
- Catalan: enganyar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 對某人不忠 / 对某人不忠 (duì mǒurén bùzhōng)
- Danish: bedrage
- Esperanto: kokri
- Finnish: pettää (fi)
- French: tromper (fr)
- German: betrügen (de)
- Hungarian: megcsal (hu)
- Indonesian: berselingkuh (id)
- Italian: tradire (it)
- Japanese: (妻を欺いて) 不倫をする (ja) (ふりんをする, furin o suru)
- Occitan: enganar (oc)
- Polish: zdradzać (pl)
- Portuguese: trair (pt)
- Romanian: înșela (ro)
- Russian: изменя́ть (ru) impf (izmenjátʹ), измени́ть (ru) pf (izmenítʹ), обманывать (ru) (obmanyvatʹ)
- Spanish: engañar (es), poner los cuernos (es), encornudar (es), sacar la vuelta (es)
- Swedish: vara otrogen mot, bedra (sv)
- Turkish: aldatmak (tr)
- Ukrainian: зра́джувати impf (zrádžuvaty), зра́дити pf (zrádyty), наставля́ти ро́ги impf (nastavljáty róhy) (idiomatic), наста́вити ро́ги pf (nastávyty róhy) (idiomatic, literally "to point one's horns (at someone)")
- Walloon: tromper (wa)
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