cheat vs whipsaw

whipsaw vs cheat

cheat and whipsaw both are nouns.

cheat and whipsaw both are verbs.

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

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

cheat: deprive somebody of something by deceit
whipsaw: victimize, especially in gambling or negotiations

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, short-change, swindle, victimize, gip, gyp, bilk, beat, bunk, welch, welsh, beguile, hoodwink, juggle.

cheat (noun)	whipsaw (noun)
a deception for profit to yourself	a saw with handles at both ends; intended for use by two people
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)	whipsaw (verb)
defeat someone through trickery or deceit	saw with a whipsaw
deprive somebody of something by deceit	victimize, especially in gambling or negotiations
engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage

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