confidence trick vs cheat

cheat vs confidence trick

confidence trick and cheat both are nouns.

confidence trick is not a verb while cheat is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
confidence trick	Yes	No	No	No
cheat	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, cheat is a hypernym of confidence trick; that is, cheat is a word with a broader meaning than confidence trick:

confidence trick: a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
cheat: the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

Other hypernyms of confidence trick include fraud, rig, swindle.

confidence trick (noun)	cheat (noun)
a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property	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

confidence trick (verb)	cheat (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 confidence trick and cheat

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