Meanings
verbcheat on (third-person singular simple present cheats on, present participle cheating on, simple past and past participle cheated on)
present singular third person cheats on · participle present cheating on · participle past cheated on · past cheated on
- colloquialidiomatictransitiveTo 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!
Synonyms & antonyms
verbbe sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Arabic خَانَ
- خَانَ (ḵāna)be unfaithful to
Catalan enganyar
- enganyarbe unfaithful to
Chinese Mandarin 對某人不忠 /对某人不忠
- 對某人不忠 /对某人不忠 (duì mǒurén bùzhōng)be unfaithful to
Danish bedrage
- bedragebe unfaithful to
Esperanto kokri
- kokribe unfaithful to
Finnish pettää
- pettääbe unfaithful to
French tromper
- tromperbe unfaithful to
German betrügen
- betrügenbe unfaithful to
Hungarian megcsal
- megcsalbe unfaithful to
Indonesian berselingkuh
- berselingkuhbe unfaithful to
Italian tradire
- tradirebe unfaithful to
Japanese 不倫をする
- 不倫をする (furin o suru)be unfaithful to
Polish zdradzać
- zdradzaćbe unfaithful to
Portuguese trair
- trairbe unfaithful to
Romanian înșela
- înșelabe unfaithful to
Russian изменя́ть, измени́ть
- изменя́ть (izmenjátʹ)be unfaithful to
- измени́ть (izmenítʹ)be unfaithful to
- обманывать (obmanyvatʹ)be unfaithful to
Spanish engañar, poner los cuernos
- engañarbe unfaithful to
- poner los cuernosbe unfaithful to
- encornudarbe unfaithful to
- sacar la vueltabe unfaithful to
- ser(le) infiel (a)be unfaithful to
Swedish vara otrogen mot, bedra
- vara otrogen motbe unfaithful to
- bedrabe unfaithful to
Turkish aldatmak
- aldatmakbe unfaithful to
Ukrainian зра́джувати, зра́дити
- зра́джувати (zrádžuvaty)be unfaithful to
- зра́дити (zrádyty)be unfaithful to
- наставля́ти ро́ги (nastavljáty róhy)be unfaithful to
Cite this entry
APA
cheat on. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cheat%20on
MLA
“cheat on.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cheat%20on. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cheat on,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cheat%20on.
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