offender vs cheat

cheat vs offender

offender and cheat both are nouns.

offender is not a verb while cheat is a verb.

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

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

offender: a person who transgresses moral or civil law
cheat: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

Other hyponyms of offender include abuser, maltreater, aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker, barrater, barrator, convict, beguiler, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster, delinquent, juvenile delinquent, defector, deserter, ganef, ganof, gonif, goniff, transgressor, malfeasant, molester, no-show, nonattender, truant, culprit, perpetrator, fancy man, pandar, pander, panderer, pimp, ponce, procurer, principal, backslider, recidivist, reversionist, miscreant, reprobate, shark, pettifogger, shyster, evildoer, sinner, supplanter, usurper, war criminal.

offender (noun)	cheat (noun)
a person who transgresses moral or civil law	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

offender (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 offender and cheat

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