gouger vs cheat

cheat vs gouger

gouger and cheat both are nouns.

gouger is not a verb while cheat is a verb.

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

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

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

Other hypernyms of gouger include beguiler, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster.

gouger (noun)	cheat (noun)
a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud	a deception for profit to yourself
an attacker who gouges out the antagonist's eye	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

gouger (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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