cheat vs plume

cheat and plume both are nouns.

cheat and plume both are verbs.

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

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

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

Other hyponyms of cheat include gazump, cozen, fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, 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)	plume (noun)
a deception for profit to yourself	the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds
the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme	a feather or cluster of feathers worn as an ornament
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	anything that resembles a feather in shape or lightness
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)	plume (verb)
defeat someone through trickery or deceit	dress or groom with elaborate care
deprive somebody of something by deceit	form a plume
engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud	clean with one's bill
be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage	deck with a plume
	be proud of
	rip off; ask an unreasonable price

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