Antonyms for protect
prəˈtɛktpro·tect

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1. protect

   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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1. protect

   Antonyms:
   betray, endanger, imperil, abandon, expose

   Synonyms:
   defend, fortify, guard, shield, preserve, cover, secure, save, vindicate

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Princeton's WordNet

1. protectverb

   shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage

   "Weatherbeater protects your roof from the rain"

2. protectverb

   use tariffs to favor domestic industry

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1. protectverb

   Synonyms:
   shield, defend, guard, fortify, screen, shelter, befriend

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1. annihilate

   we had to protect the vase.

   Submitted by rinat on October 3, 2019  

2. lynch

   Submitted by anonymous on March 3, 2020  

How to use protect in a sentence?

1. Mom Keri Morrison:

   My son is no longer here because he didn’t have these skills, to me, I’m protecting her, and that’s what a parent is supposed to do— to protect her child— and I feel like I failed my son, and I’m not going to fail my daughter.

2. European Commission:

   The Secretariat continuously keeps its cybersecurity measures under review in close cooperation with the other EU institutions. this measure aims to protect the Commission against cybersecurity threats and actions which may be exploited for cyber-attacks against the corporate environment of the Commission.

3. Laura Martin:

   Disney couldn't do this, and Apple couldn't do this. They're run by committee, if it was a company run by committee, they would have to react, because the committee — the board of directors — would be threatening to fire the CEO to protect revenue. That doesn't have to happen here.

4. Claire Runge:

   A typical migratory bird relies on many different geographic locations throughout its annual cycle for food, rest and breeding. So even if we protect most of their breeding grounds, it’s still not enough – threats somewhere else can affect the entire population, the chain can be broken at any link.

5. Ron Hood:

   I believe life begins at conception so the goal of House Bill 565 is to, first of all, continue to get the word out that life does begin at conception and move the debate in that direction and to protect unborn Ohioans from being aborted.

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