cheat vs pluck

cheat and pluck both are nouns.

cheat and pluck both are verbs.

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

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

cheat: deprive somebody of something by deceit
pluck: rip off; ask an unreasonable price

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

cheat (noun)	pluck (noun)
a deception for profit to yourself	the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord
the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme	the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury
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)	pluck (verb)
defeat someone through trickery or deceit	pull or pull out sharply
deprive somebody of something by deceit	look for and gather
engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud	pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage	strip of feathers
	rip off; ask an unreasonable price
	sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity

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