How is the word protect different from other verbs like it?
Some common synonyms of protect are defend, guard, safeguard, and shield. While all these words mean «to keep secure from danger or against attack,» protect implies the use of something (such as a covering) as a bar to the admission or impact of what may attack or injure.
a hard hat to protect your head
When is defend a more appropriate choice than protect?
The words defend and protect can be used in similar contexts, but defend denotes warding off actual or threatened attack.
When is it sensible to use guard instead of protect?
In some situations, the words guard and protect are roughly equivalent. However, guard implies protecting with vigilance and force against expected danger.
White House entrances are well guarded
When can safeguard be used instead of protect?
Although the words safeguard and protect have much in common, safeguard implies taking precautionary protective measures against merely possible danger.
our civil liberties must be safeguarded
When would shield be a good substitute for protect?
While in some cases nearly identical to protect, shield suggests protective intervention in imminent danger or actual attack.
shielded her eyes from the sun with her hand
What is another word for Protect?
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defend, keep someone safe
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watch over, keep someone safe
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watch over, keep someone safe
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To cherish is both to hold dear and to treat as dear. Mere unexpressed esteem would not be cherishing. In the marriage vow, «to love, honor, and cherish,» the word cherish implies all that each can do by love and tenderness for the welfare and happiness of the other, as by support, protection, care in sickness, comfort in sorrow, sympathy, and help of every kind. To nurse is to tend the helpless or feeble, as infants, or the sick or wounded. To nourish is strictly to sustain and build up by food; to nurture includes careful mental and spiritual training, with something of love and tenderness; to foster is simply to maintain and care for, to bring up; a foster-child will be nourished, but may not be as tenderly nurtured or as lovingly cherished as if one’s own. In the figurative sense, the opinion one cherishes he holds, not with mere cold conviction, but with loving devotion.
See synonyms for ABANDON; CHASTEN.
Synonyms:
cheer, cherish, cling to, comfort, encourage, entertain, foster, harbor, hold dear, nourish, nurse, nurture, shelter, treasure, value
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Synonyms:
defend, fortify, guard, shield, preserve, cover, secure, save, vindicateAntonyms:
betray, endanger, imperil, abandon, expose
Princeton’s WordNet
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protectverb
shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage
«Weatherbeater protects your roof from the rain»
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protectverb
use tariffs to favor domestic industry
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List of paraphrases for «protect»:
protecting, protection, safeguard, defend, protected, protects, preserve, safeguarding, secure, shield, protective, uphold, preserving
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How to use protect in a sentence?
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Lakshheish M Patel:
Keeping SBI Securities as brokerage firm but have almost stopped investing in share market after realizing that brokerage firm cheats traders and all brokers are equally corrupt and crook who take small brokerage from traders and big commission from companies for helping organizations to loot money of investors and traders. Since am unemployed so seeing stock market operation for time pass purpose only and updating own observation to protect people
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Greg Baylor:
Every person should be treated with dignity and respect. Our laws should protect the constitutionally guaranteed freedoms of every citizen, no matter who they are, unfortunately, coercive sexual orientation and gender identity laws, like Equality Act, undermine both fairness and freedom, targeting those whose views the government does n’t like.
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Uhuru Kenyatta:
I am confident that you will find that there is nothing in this law that goes against the bill of rights or any provision of the constitution… its intent is to protect the lives and property for all the citizens of this Republic.
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Laurence McCullough:
Virginity testing does not protect and promote the health of female patients ; virginity testing is therefore completely incompatible with each of these three principles of professional ethics in obstetrics and gynecology.
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Kristi Scott:
CIA is committed to transparency consistent with our obligation to protect intelligence sources and methods.
Translations for protect
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- حمىArabic
- qorumaqAzerbaijani
- protegirCatalan, Valencian
- chránitCzech
- amddiffynWelsh
- beskytteDanish
- schützenGerman
- προστατεύωGreek
- protektiEsperanto
- protegerSpanish
- kaitsmaEstonian
- پاییدن, پاسبانی کردنPersian
- suojella, suojataFinnish
- protégerFrench
- caomhnaigh, cosainIrish
- dìonScottish Gaelic
- protexerGalician
- הגןHebrew
- रक्षा करनाHindi
- pwotejeHaitian Creole
- védHungarian
- պաշտպանելArmenian
- protektarIdo
- hlífaIcelandic
- proteggereItalian
- 守る, 保護Japanese
- დაცვაGeorgian
- 보호하다Korean
- parastin, پاراستنKurdish
- protego, protegendum, defendoLatin
- saugoti, apsaugotiLithuanian
- saudzētLatvian
- രക്ഷിയ്ക്കുകMalayalam
- сэргийлэхMongolian
- beveiligen, beschermenDutch
- dekke, verne, gardere, beskytte, sikreNorwegian
- bichʼą́ą́h naagháNavajo, Navaho
- protegirOccitan
- chronićPolish
- protegerPortuguese
- ocrotiRomanian
- защитить, защищать, оберегать, беречьRussian
- zaštititiSerbo-Croatian
- mbrojturAlbanian
- skyddaSwedish
- kukingaSwahili
- సంరక్షించుTelugu
- คุ้มครอง, ป้องกันThai
- korumakTurkish
- захиститиUkrainian
- bảo vệVietnamese
- 保护Chinese
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- assure
- care for
- conserve
- cover
- cushion
- defend
- insulate
- keep
- look after
- preserve
- safeguard
- save
- secure
- shelter
- shield
- support
- bulwark
- champion
- chaperon
- fend
- foster
- harbor
- hedge
- screen
- shade
- stonewall
- watch
- cover all bases
- cover up
- give refuge
- give sanctuary
- go to bat for
- keep safe
- ride shotgun for
- sentinel
- shotgun
- stand guard
- take under wing
- watch over
On this page you’ll find 109 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to protect, such as: assure, care for, conserve, cover, cushion, and defend.
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He will restore America’s reputation around the world as an ally in the struggle to protect and expand human rights.
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In the pockets of affluence of our country, Florida and other places, people are actually thriving in this environment, because they’re protected and because they have access to everything.
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WORDS RELATED TO PROTECT
- accouter
- appoint
- array
- deck
- equalize
- fortify
- furnish
- gear
- gird
- guard
- heel
- heel up
- issue
- load
- load up
- lug iron
- make ready
- mobilize
- outfit
- pack
- pack a rod
- prepare
- prime
- protect
- provide
- rig
- rod up
- strengthen
- supply
- tote
- accoutering
- appointing
- arraying
- decking
- equalizing
- fortifying
- furnishing
- gearing
- girding
- guarding
- heeling
- heeling up
- issuing
- loading
- loading up
- lugging iron
- making ready
- mobilizing
- outfitting
- packing
- packing a rod
- preparing
- priming
- protecting
- providing
- rigging
- rodding up
- strengthening
- supplying
- toting
- carry arms
- defend
- protect
- attend
- baby sit
- father
- keep an eye on
- keep tabs on
- look after
- mind
- mind the store
- minister
- mother
- nurse
- nurture
- pay attention to
- protect
- provide for
- ride herd on
- take pains
- tend
- wait on
- watch
- watch over
- attends
- baby sits
- considers
- fosters
- keeps an eye on
- keeps tabs on
- looks after
- minds
- minds the store
- ministers
- mothers
- nurses
- nurtures
- pays attention to
- protects
- provides for
- rides herd on
- sits
- takes pains
- tends
- treasures
- waits on
- watches
- watches over
- attend
- carry
- conduct
- consort with
- convoy
- escort
- guide
- oversee
- protect
- safeguard
- shepherd
- supervise
- watch over
Roget’s 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.