shark vs cheat

shark and cheat both are nouns.

shark and cheat both are verbs.

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

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

shark: play the shark; act with trickery
cheat: engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud

Other hypernyms of shark include chisel.

shark (noun)	cheat (noun)
any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales	a deception for profit to yourself
a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways	the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest	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

shark (verb)	cheat (verb)
hunt shark	defeat someone through trickery or deceit
play the shark; act with trickery	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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