cheat vs fox

cheat and fox both are nouns.

cheat and fox both are verbs.

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

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

cheat: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
fox: a shifty deceptive person

Other hyponyms of cheat include bluffer, four-flusher, chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler, decoy, steerer, dodger, slyboots, betrayer, double-crosser, double-dealer, traitor, two-timer, defalcator, embezzler, peculator, falsifier, finagler, wangler, counterfeiter, forger, fortune hunter, figurehead, front, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman, dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender, imitator, impersonator, fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer, liar, prevaricator, misleader, charlatan, mountebank, obscurantist, sandbagger, two-timer, utterer.

cheat (noun)	fox (noun)
a deception for profit to yourself	alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail; most are predators that do not hunt in packs
the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme	a shifty deceptive person
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	the grey or reddish-brown fur of a fox
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)	fox (verb)
defeat someone through trickery or deceit	become discolored with, or as if with, mildew spots
deprive somebody of something by deceit	be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud	deceive somebody
be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage

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