cheat vs soak

cheat and soak both are nouns.

cheat and soak both are verbs.

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

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

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

Other hyponyms of cheat include gazump, cozen, fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, 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)	soak (noun)
a deception for profit to yourself	washing something by allowing it to soak
the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme	the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)
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)	soak (verb)
defeat someone through trickery or deceit	fill, soak, or imbue totally
deprive somebody of something by deceit	cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud	heat a metal prior to working it
be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage	become drunk or drink excessively
	make drunk (with alcoholic drinks)
	beat severely
	submerge in a liquid
	rip off; ask an unreasonable price
	leave as a guarantee in return for money

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