mindmap root((骗取)) cheat suggests using deceit or trickery that is intended to escape observation: ~ed on the written examination. cozen implies artful persuading or flattering to attain a thing or a purpose: always able to ~ her doting grandfather out of a few dollars. defraud stresses depriving someone of what is rightfully his or her own and usually connotes deliberate perversion of the truth: her own lawyer ~ed her of her inheritance. swindle implies large-scale cheating by means of misrepresentation or abuse of confidence chiefly in order to attain money: widows ~d of their savings by con artists.