crib vs cheat

crib and cheat both are nouns.

crib and cheat both are verbs.

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

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

crib: use a crib, as in an exam
cheat: engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud

Other hypernyms of crib include chisel.

crib (noun)	cheat (noun)
a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two	a deception for profit to yourself
the cards discarded by players at cribbage	the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
baby bed with high sides made of slats	someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
a bin or granary for storing grains	weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)	weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat

crib (verb)	cheat (verb)
line with beams or planks	defeat someone through trickery or deceit
take unauthorized (intellectual material)	deprive somebody of something by deceit
use a crib, as in an exam	engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
	be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage

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