becheat

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ cheat.

Verb

becheat (third-person singular simple present becheats, present participle becheating, simple past and past participle becheated)

1. (transitive, rare) to cheat; cheat out of
   • 1838, Notes on Naples and its environs, and on the road to it from Rome, by a traveller:

     Virgil apart, however, and dull weather apart, I have never been made so fully aware, as during our brief survey of the environs of Rome, how marvellously our northern imaginations are bedazzled and becheated by the poets, and painters, and romancers of Italy; […]

   • 1856, The Art Journal, page 150:

     But are you not ashamed so to becheat him of his reasonable expectations!

Anagrams

• beteach