cheat vs falsify

cheat is a noun but falsify is not a noun.

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

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

Other hyponyms of cheat include job, shark, rig, set up, cozen, crib, cook, fake, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle.

cheat (noun)	falsify (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)	falsify (verb)
defeat someone through trickery or deceit	falsify knowingly
deprive somebody of something by deceit	insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud	prove false
be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage	make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
	tamper, with the purpose of deception