fregare — meaning in English

English meaning

• cheat verb To break rules in order to gain an unfair advantage.
• finagle verb (informal) To get or arrange something through a roundabout or complicated method.
• jack noun A mechanical device used to lift something heavy off the ground, especially to raise a car to change a tyre.
• rub verb To move something back and forth against a surface while pressing on it.
• scam noun A dishonest scheme designed to trick people out of money.
• screw noun A metal fastener with a spiral thread, driven in with a twisting motion to hold materials together.
• steal verb To take something that belongs to someone else without permission or intention of returning it.
• swindle verb To cheat someone out of money or property through deception.
• swipe verb To steal something, often quickly and casually.

Senses

fregare is used for these senses in English:

• cheat (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
• finagle (transitive) To obtain, arrange, or achieve by deceitful methods, by trickery.
• jack (transitive, colloquial) To steal (something), typically an automobile; to rob (someone).
• rub (transitive) To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.
• scam (ambitransitive) To defraud or embezzle.
• screw (transitive) To extort or practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions; to put the screws on.
• steal (transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
• steal (transitive, baseball) To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the aid of a hit, walk, passed ball, wild pitch, or defensive indifference.

cheat — full definition

1. verb To break rules in order to gain an unfair advantage.
2. verb To be sexually or romantically unfaithful to a partner.
3. verb To deceive or trick someone, often to take something from them.
4. noun A person who cheats, or an act of cheating.

finagle — full definition

1. verb (informal) To get or arrange something through a roundabout or complicated method.
2. verb (informal) To get something by tricking or deceiving someone.
3. verb (informal) To cheat someone out of something using cunning or dishonest methods.

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