cheat vs bilk

cheat is a noun but bilk is not a noun.

cheat and bilk both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cheat	Yes	No	Yes	No
bilk	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, bilk is a hyponym of cheat; that is, bilk is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than cheat:

cheat: deprive somebody of something by deceit
bilk: cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money

Other hyponyms of cheat include gazump, cozen, fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge, bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize, gip, gyp, beat, bunk, whipsaw, welch, welsh, beguile, hoodwink, juggle.

cheat (noun)	bilk (noun)
a deception for profit to yourself
the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat

cheat (verb)	bilk (verb)
defeat someone through trickery or deceit	escape, either physically or mentally
deprive somebody of something by deceit	evade payment to
engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud	cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money
be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage	hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of

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