cheat

escheit (Old French)

evanescere (Latin)

*cadeo (Latin)

escheat (Anglo-Norman)

*excadeo (Latin)

(Vulgar Latin) I decrease, fall away, diminish.

escheat (English)

(legal) The property so reverted.. (legal) The return of property of a deceased person to the state (originally to a feudal lord) where there are no legal heirs or claimants.. (obsolete) Plunder, booty.. That which falls to one; a reversion or return. (of property) To revert to a state or lord because its previous owner died without an heir.

escheoir (Old French)

(impersonal) to happen. To fall.

eschete (Middle English)

chete (Middle English)

cheat (English)

(video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat code.. A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.. Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).. The weed cheatgrass.