Cheat
Cheat verb - To use dishonest methods to achieve a goal.
Protect
Protect verb - To drive danger or attack away from.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Even then, the IDDQD cheat does not protect you from telefrags, nor the laser beams in Quickman's stage, nor Metool Daddy stomping you flat.
- Using God Mode in final battle of Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos does not protect you from having allies killed by scripted events, even if you destroy all of the undead (since that cheat applies only to the player who typed it).
Source: Story Overwrite - I always figured that he was genre savvy enough to know that Trigon would either cheat him out of the deal or try to grant it in a really horrible way, so he scrounged around Trigon's domain until he found an artifact that would protect him.
Source: Headscratchers / Teen Titans
Cite this Source
Protect and Cheat. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cheat/protect
Cheat & Protect. N.p., 2016. Web. 13 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/cheat/protect>.
Protect or Cheat. 2016. Accessed August 13, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/cheat/protect.
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