noun
- Weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous.
- synonyms: darnel, tare, bearded darnel, Lolium temulentum
- Weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat.
- synonyms: chess, Bromus secalinus
- Someone who leads you to believe something that is not true.
- The act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme.
- usage: "that book is a fraud"
- A deception for profit to yourself.
- synonyms: cheating
verb
- Deprive somebody of something by deceit.
- usage: "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money"
- Defeat someone through trickery or deceit.
- Engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud.
- usage: "Who's chiseling on the side"
- synonyms: chisel
- Be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage.
- usage: "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering"
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