uncheat
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[edit]uncheat (third-person singular simple present uncheats, present participle uncheating, simple past and past participle uncheated)
- (transitive, intransitive, rare) To undo an act of cheating.
- 1992, Barbara Probst Solomon, Smart Hearts in the City, page 330:
- Those who manage it can uncheat you and give you your inheritance.
- 2017, Kevin Johnson, Total Devotion: 365 Days of Spending Time With Jesus:
- You can't […] uncheat on a test. Nothing can completely undo what you did—whether it's a sin or a mistake or a bit of both.
- 2013, Sarah Pekkanen, The Best of Us, page 251:
- "Build a time machine," she'd said. "And go back, and uncheat."