dissembling vs cheat

cheat vs dissembling

dissembling and cheat both are nouns.

dissembling is not a verb while cheat is a verb.

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

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

dissembling: the act of deceiving
cheat: a deception for profit to yourself

Other hyponyms of dissembling include fakery, indirection, chicane, chicanery, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile, double-dealing, duplicity, cheating, delusion, head game, illusion, feigning, pretence, pretending, pretense, simulation, impersonation, imposture, obscurantism, bluff, four flush, take-in.

dissembling (noun)	cheat (noun)
the act of deceiving	a deception for profit to yourself
pretending with intention to deceive	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

dissembling (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

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