cheat vs swindler

swindler vs cheat

cheat and swindler both are nouns.

cheat is a verb but swindler is not a verb.

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

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

cheat: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
swindler: a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud

Other hyponyms of cheat include bluffer, four-flusher, chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer, decoy, steerer, dodger, fox, 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)	swindler (noun)
a deception for profit to yourself	a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud
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)	swindler (verb)
defeat someone through trickery or deceit
deprive somebody of something by deceit
engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage

Difference between cheat and swindler

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