sting vs cheat

sting and cheat both are nouns.

sting and cheat both are verbs.

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

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

sting: a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
cheat: the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

Other hypernyms of sting include fraud, rig, swindle.

sting (noun)	cheat (noun)
a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property	a deception for profit to yourself
operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act	the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung	someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin	weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
a mental pain or distress	weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat

sting (verb)	cheat (verb)
saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous	defeat someone through trickery or deceit
deliver a sting to	deprive somebody of something by deceit
cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging	engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
cause a stinging pain	be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort

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