cheat vs short-change

short-change vs cheat

cheat is a noun but short-change is not a noun.

cheat and short-change both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cheat	Yes	No	Yes	No
short-change	No	No	Yes	No

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

cheat: deprive somebody of something by deceit
short-change: deprive of by deceit

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, swindle, victimize, gip, gyp, bilk, beat, bunk, whipsaw, welch, welsh, beguile, hoodwink, juggle.

cheat (noun)	short-change (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)	short-change (verb)
defeat someone through trickery or deceit	cheat someone by not returning him enough money
deprive somebody of something by deceit	deprive of by deceit
engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage

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