cheat vs victimize

cheat is a noun but victimize is not a noun.

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

As verbs, victimize is a hypernym of cheat; that is, victimize is a word with a broader meaning than cheat:

Other hypernyms of cheat include victimise.

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

cheat (noun)	victimize (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)	victimize (verb)
defeat someone through trickery or deceit	punish unjustly
deprive somebody of something by deceit	make a victim of
engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud	deprive of by deceit
be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage