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Synonyms for shield
ʃildshield
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
shield
The weak may speak or act in defense of the strong; none but the powerful can assure others of protection. A defense is ordinarily against actual attack; protection is against possible as well as actual dangers. We speak of defense against an assault, protection from the cold. Vindication is a triumphant defense of character and conduct against charges of error or wrong. Compare APOLOGY.
Synonyms:
apology, bulwark, defense, fortress, guard, justification, protection, rampart, resistance, safeguard, shelter, vindicationAntonyms:
abandonment, betrayal, capitulation, desertion, flight, surrenderPreposition:
Defense against assault or assailants; in law, defense to an action, from the testimony.
Princeton's WordNet
shieldnoun
a protective covering or structure
shield, bucklernoun
armor carried on the arm to intercept blows
carapace, shell, cuticle, shieldverb
hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
Synonyms:
casing, cuticle, racing shell, eggshell, case, shell, epidermis, buckler, carapace, scale, plateshield, screenverb
protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm
Synonyms:
test, sieve, riddle, harbour, block out, sort, harbor, screen, screen outharbor, harbour, shieldverb
hold back a thought or feeling about
"She is harboring a grudge against him"
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#287 | case | |
#502 | test | |
#914 | protection | |
#923 | sort | |
#1049 | screen | |
#1275 | hold | |
#1777 | scale | |
#2141 | defense | |
#2157 | protect | |
#3157 | plate | |
#3541 | guard | |
#3616 | shell | |
#3656 | resistance | |
#4200 | nurse | |
#4329 | deck | |
#4776 | harbor | |
#6056 | saver | |
#6486 | shield | |
#6682 | shelter | |
#7466 | harbour | |
#8768 | badge | |
#8916 | armor | |
#10672 | justification | |
#11373 | protector | |
#12349 | shields | |
#14008 | entertain | |
#14339 | armour | |
#14680 | fortress | |
#15421 | safeguard | |
#17325 | apology | |
#19524 | dun | |
#19762 | riddle | |
#20282 | casing | |
#21437 | ecu | |
#23077 | shielded | |
#23804 | shielding | |
#28884 | sieve | |
#46218 | escudo | |
#46486 | epidermis | |
#50223 | cuticle | |
#54917 | rampart | |
#56537 | vindication | |
#70634 | buckler | |
#73669 | eggshell | |
#77590 | bulwark | |
#77637 | breastplate | |
#86787 | carapace |
How to use shield in a sentence?
All of a sudden we just hit the ground and the trees, and it burst into flames in the front, and then the right side burst into flames, i ripped the seat out and I turned it around and used it as a shield from the flames, and then I couldn’t get the seatbelt out and everyone was gone. I was like please get my seatbelt off.
That’s going to be a nice shield of armor for our population as a whole, if we do get to very low case rates, we certainly can ease back on some of these restrictions.
We talked about how our family became a family openly in front of him. When he went in social gatherings, [ if ] anybody would ask, we didn't shield him from hearing it from a very young age.
The perceived anonymity of the Internet will not serve as a shield for espousing violence.
The President has the constitutional authority to confer pardons and commutations, but that power is not unlimited, and was provided to remedy injustices, not to cover up for a president or shield The President from potential criminal liability.
Translations for shield
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- درعArabic
- štítCzech
- skjoldDanish
- schützenGerman
- ασπίδαGreek
- ŝildoEsperanto
- protegerSpanish
- سپرPersian
- kilpiFinnish
- bouclierFrench
- sciathIrish
- ढालHindi
- pajzsHungarian
- melindungiIndonesian
- scudoItalian
- מגןHebrew
- シールドJapanese
- 방패Korean
- arma,Latin
- schildDutch
- skjermeNorwegian
- tarczaPolish
- protegerPortuguese
- scutRomanian
- щитRussian
- skyddaSwedish
- கவசம்Tamil
- kalkanTurkish
- щитUkrainian
- ڈھالUrdu
- cái khiênVietnamese
- פאַרשטעלןYiddish
- 盾Chinese
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