cheat out of

Definitions

1. 1

   To trick (someone) into giving something up

   To trick (someone) into giving something up; to unfairly deprive someone of (something).

   • Terence introduces a flatterer talking to a coxcomb, whom he cheats out of a livelihood, and a third person on the stage makes on him this pleasant remark, 'This fellow has an art of making fools madmen.'
   • My dear Sir William, my Marmion has won the cup at Ilsley and been cheated out of it.
   • If we just define lesbian as the way white middle-class lesbian feminists have mostly turned out to be, like much of the activist community in recent years, then we are cheating ourselves out of having a larger family.

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