deceiver vs gouger

gouger vs deceiver

deceiver and gouger both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
deceiver	Yes	No	No	No
gouger	Yes	No	No	No

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

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

Other hyponyms of deceiver include bluffer, four-flusher, chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, grifter, scammer, swindler, 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.

deceiver (noun)	gouger (noun)
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud
	an attacker who gouges out the antagonist's eye

Difference between deceiver and gouger

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