Protect

Quick meaning: Protect is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.

More Meanings

1. (travel, aviation) To book a passenger on a later flight if there is a chance they will not be able to board their earlier reserved flight.

Example Sentences

to protect a child from danger

This antivirus package will protect your computer from hackers.

Condoms are designed to protect against sexually-transmitted diseases.

But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.

Word Forms

• protects
• protecting
• protected
• protectest
• protectedst
• protecteth

Synonyms for protect

Depending on context, synonyms include shield, beshield.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include guarding, protection, safeguarding, safeguard, defend, defence.

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